Lorimor v. Incorporated Town of Lorimor

It appears that the town of Lorimor was incorporated in the year 1892. As originally incorporated, it comprised four sections of land in a square form, except an eighty-acre tract in each of the four corners. It therefore contained 2,240 acres. By this action it is sought to sever from the corporate limits of the town 1,910 acres, leaving the corporate area to consist of but 330 acres.

The general reasons urged for the claimed right of severance are that the land sought to be set apart from the corporation is wholly adapted to and used for agricultural purposes, and is not needed for any…