Mayor of Jeffersonville v. Weems

The mayor and common council of the city of Jeffersonville applied, by petition, to the board of county commissioners of Clark county, for the annexation to that city of certain territory. French Weems and others, the owners of the property sought to be annexed, appeared to the petition, and resisted the application by remonstrance.

The board made an order in compliance with the prayer of the petition, from which the defendants appealed; and the Circuit Court, upon their motion, dismissed the case, on the ground that it was not within the jurisdiction of the board of commissioners.

The record…