City of Danville v. Wilson

DAVIS, Commissioner.

The City of Danville, a third class municipal corporation, invokes the original jurisdiction of this Court seeking an order prohibiting Hon. Gilbert M. Wilson, Judge of the Boyle Circuit Court, from further proceedings in a remonstrance suit against proposed annexation by the City. The four plaintiffs in the remonstrance suit are named as respondents also.

The factual background of the controversy reflects that Danville’s Board of Council enacted an ordinance November 16, 1964, proposing the annexation of certain territory adjacent to the City. On December 12, 1964, four…