State v. Minnetonka Village
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Information filed in this Court March 14, 1894, by H. W. Childs, Attorney General, stating that more than thirty persons resident in the limits of a proposed village, presented to the Board of County Commissioners of Hennepin County, March 19, 1892, their petition under Laws 1885, ch. 145, as amended by Laws 1887, ch. 62, asking the Board to appoint a time and place for the electors to vote for, or against, the incorporation of the territory as a village, to be named…
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Information filed in this Court March 14, 1894, by H. W. Childs, Attorney General, stating that more than thirty persons resident in the limits of a proposed village, presented to the Board of County Commissioners of Hennepin County, March 19, 1892, their petition under Laws 1885, ch. 145, as amended by Laws 1887, ch. 62, asking the Board to appoint a time and place for the electors to vote for, or against, the incorporation of the territory as a village, to be named Minnetonka. The proposed village was about seven miles long in the longest part from east to west and six miles wide from north…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
It is conceded that the respondent exists, if at all, by virtue of the petition and other exhibits attached to the information, and purporting to be proceedings under Laws 1885, ch. 145, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation of villages,” etc.
The language of the statute is: “Any district, sections or parts of sections which has been platted into lots and blocks, also the lands adjacent thereto, * * * said territory containing a resident population of not less than 175, may become incorporated as a village.”
The territory claimed to have been incorporated as the village of…
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- In Re Incorporation of Village of Loch ArbourSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1957
- State ex rel. Hammond v. DimondNebraska Supreme Court · 1895
- State Ex Rel. Danielson v. Village of MoundSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1951
- State ex rel. Town of Holland v. LammersWisconsin Supreme Court · 1902
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