Town of Scottsdale v. State ex rel. Pickrell

UDALL, Justice.

On November 21, 1962 the attorney general on behalf of the state of Arizona filed a quo warranto action against the appellant, town of Scottsdale, charging appellant with exercising an unlawful franchise over the area described in the town of Scottsdale’s annexation ordinance 160 adopted November 10, 1962. A.R.S. § 12-2041 (1956).

Judgment whs rendered in the trial court in favor of the state, from which the appellant perfected this appeal. The trial court found: (1) appellant did not obtain signatures of owners representing one half of the value of the real and personal…