Hamaker v. City of Highmore

This is a mandamus proceeding to compel the city auditor of the city of Highmore to 'file, in the circuit court, a petition for the exclusion of certain lands from the city limits of Plighmore, which petition was theretofore filed in said city auditor’s office and was not acted upon by the governing body ’of the city during the 30-day period mentioned in section 6557, Rev. Code 1919. The trial court granted mandamus, from which order the city auditor appeals. The respondents have not appeared in this court.

We assume that the trial court, in granting the writ of mandamus, construed the 'words…