Missoula Rural Fire District v. City of Missoula

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Defendant City appeals from adverse judgments entered in the district court, Missoula County, enjoining it from annexing certain properties to the City.

From the record it appears that on July 22, 1974, the City of Missoula (City) adopted a resolution expressing its intention to annex certain lands wholly surrounded by the City’s present corporate limits, known as the “Wapikiya area”. This area is within the boundaries of the Missoula Rural Fire District (Fire District) which had been in existence for more than ten years…