City of Mobile v. Aborady

The City of Mobile appeals from a judgment declaring Mobile's annexation of adjacent unincorporated territory void. A number of residents of that territory had challenged the annexation on the ground that the act providing for a referendum on the annexation was not passed in accordance with Ala. Const., Art. IV, § 106, and Ala. Code 1975, § 11-42-6.1 The issue is whether an amendment decreasing the area of the territory to be annexed changed the substance of the bill from the bill as it was advertised and thereby violated § 106.

In February and March 1990, two proposed annexation bills were…