Johnson v. Boggs

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Fairfield County Court of Common Pleas permanently enjoining the annexation of 269.47 acres in part of Violet Township to the village of Pickerington, as previously allowed by the Board of Commissioners of Fairfield County.

The territory, as annexed, includes 97 owners and the annexation petition contained signatures of only 41 of those owners. The Court of Common Pleas, acting on that stipulation of fact, found that the petition, as amended, did not contain the signatures of a majority of the owners of the real estate in the territory sought to be…