Certain Tell City Annexation Territory Landowners v. Tell City, Indiana

Pyle, Judge.

Statement of the Case

This case concerns the statutory question of .what constitutes a necessary signature on a remonstrance petition for purposes of challenging a city’s proposed land annexation. The Appellants/Petitioners, Certain Tell City Annexation Territory Landowners (“Property Owners”), filed a remonstrance petition (“Remonstrance Petition”) challenging a proposed annexation of their land by Tell City (“The City”). The trial court dismissed the Remonstrance Petition, holding that it did not contain the necessary signatures because many of the Property Owners’ signatures…