Harvey Canal Land & Improvement Co. v. Gelbke

On April 1, 1927, at a special meeting convened at an early hour in the morning, in obedience to summons issued late the night before, the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of Gretna adopted an ordinance enlarging the corporate limits and taking in a large acreage extending up the Mississippi river.

The precipitate and hasty action of the authorities was taken, it is said, to forestall a similar move of an up-river village which contemplated extending its limits so as to take in some of the same desirable territory.

The city of Gretna, without' the additional territory, comprises an area…