American Legion Phillips Post v. City of Malden

RUARK, Judge.

This case set sail on an Odyssean journey in 1951, survived delays and perils which might have been planned by Poseidon (including the switching of circuit judges in midtrial), and has finally arrived in the rocky harbor of this court for decision. The reasons for this odyssey sprang into life when Malden, a city of the fourth class, almost literally spread its wings by annexing what is referred to as “the Malden Air Base,” consisting of some 2,680 acres, together with a corridor extending along Highway 25 a distance of some two and a fourth miles from the north city limits of…