City of Terre Haute v. Beach

The appellees’ complaint alleges that the board of commissioners of Vigo county, on the petition of the city of Terre Haute, ordered lands belonging to them to be annexed to the city, and charges that this judgment was void, because, to borrow the language of the pleading, “ no petition was ever presented to the board of commissioners for the annexation of the territory described in the order of *144the board, but the petition presented at said time to said board included and described other lands, and which said board refused to annex to said city, and granted only a part of said petition.” It…