State Ex Rel. Davis v. City of Homestead

— Defining and changing municipal boundaries are primarily legislative or administrative functions, but the legality of such boundaries as affecting property right's is a matter of judicial cognizance. Section 1918, Revised General Statutes 1920, Section 3051, Compiled General Laws 1927, originally enacted in Section 2, Chapter 3163, Acts of 1879, amending Chapter 1688, Acts of 1869, and Chapter 3025, Acts 1877, is as follows:

“If any incorporated city or'town shall desire to change it's territorial limits by the annexation of any unincorporated tract of land lying contiguous thereto and…