State Ex Rel. Bowen v. Kruegel

— Down river from the city of Richland, adjoining its easterly limits near where the Yakima river flows into the Columbia, is a community known as the “Richland Y.” A majority of its inhabitants, hoping to make their district a part of Richland, petitioned for annexation, and the city council and mayor of Richland showed their approval by enacting an ordinance granting annexation. Many registered electors of Richland showed their disapproval of an annexation so consummated without a vote of Richland’s electorate and petitioned the city council to repeal the ordinance of annexation or put it…