State Ex Inf. Mallett v. City of Joplin

* NOTE: Opinion filed at October Term, 1932, April 20, 1933; motion for rehearing filed; motion overruled at May Term, June 12, 1933. This is a quo warranto action, commenced by the Prosecuting Attorney of Jasper County at the relation of certain interested landowners, to oust the city of Joplin from certain territory over which it had assumed jurisdiction in 1929, under Section 1, of ordinance No. 15162 of the city extending its boundaries. The contention of the relators was that this extension of the city's boundaries was "wholly unreasonable, unnecessary for any city purposes whatsoever,…