State Ex Rel. Randall v. Long, Spl. J.

This is an original action filed in this court, requesting a writ of mandate to compel a hearing and trial on the merits of a remonstrance filed by the petitioners (numbering over four thousand persons) against the annexation of certain territory by the city of Terre Haute. The petitioners complain primarily that their petition was dismissed by the respondent Judge without right on the ground, as the court states in its order, “that the remonstrance heretofore filed in this cause does not contain the signature of a majority of the owners of land in the territory sought to be annexed nor does…