State ex rel. Gale v. Ueland

This is an application for an absolute writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent, the judge of probate of Hen-nepin county, from making an order under Gen. St. 1878, c. 10, § 124, declaring certain territory in the town of, and adjoining the city of, Minneapolis to be duly incorporated as a city by the name of Minnehaha. The part of section 124 conferring authority on judges of probate to. make such orders reads thus: “Whenever two-thirds of the legal voters residing within the limits of a territory comprising not less than 2,000 inhabitants, and not more than 15,000, and which territory…