City of Ceres v. City of Modesto

This litigation is the culmination of a longstanding dispute between two cities over the future annexation of certain contiguous unincorporated territory. The background facts, as gleaned from the record, are these: The dispute between the City of Modesto and the City of Ceres as to which city should eventually annex the unincorporated area of Stanislaus County that lies between the southern boundary of Modesto and the northern boundary of Ceres, was apparently brought to a head when 60 residents petitioned Ceres to annex the territory to that city. The disagreement was then presented to the…