Skinner v. Mayfield

Prank Holt, Justice.

This controversy results from an annexation dispute. In this original proceeding the petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent from entertaining appeals by certain citizens and taxpayers from a county court order which granted the annexation of a contiguous territory to the City of El Dorado.

The city’s petition for the annexation, based upon prior approval of the qualified voters, was filed in the Union- County Court on December 19, 1967. The first order for annexation by the county court was made on January 29, 1968. On April 19, 3968, the county…