St. Andrews Public Service District v. City of Charleston

PLEICONES, Justice:

We granted certiorari to consider whether municipal annexations using roadways to achieve contiguity are “absolutely void as not authorized by law.” The Court of Appeals held that they may be, and therefore respondent, an entity with no interest in the property annexed, had standing to challenge the annexations. St. Andrews Public Serv. Dist. v. City Council of the City of Charleston, 339 S.C. 320, 529 S.E.2d 64 (Ct.App.2000). We reverse, and in so doing, overrule our decision in Quinn v. City of Columbia, 303 S.C. 405, 401 S.E.2d 165 (1991), to the extent it holdsoa…