City of Decorah v. Peterson

LeGRAND, Justice.

This is still another case in which municipal anxiety to provide adequate room for anticipated growth is matched against the dogged determination of outlying landowners to remain beyond the city’s boundaries. We affirm the trial court’s judgment that the city, having substantially complied with the relevant provisions of chapter 362, The Code, 1966, is entitled to annex approximately 960 acres adjacent to its present borders.

No challenge is made concerning procedural matters. The sole propositions urged for reversal are the following: (1) section 362.26 violates both the due…