City of Hitchcock v. Longmire

PEDEN, Justice.

The City of Hitchcock, a home rule city, appeals from a summary judgment in a municipal annexation case. Warren T. Longmire, Jr., and others brought this suit against the City, the four members of its city commission, and the city secretary (officially and individually) for a declaratory judgment to determine the validity of annexation Ordinance No. 308, for an injunction to prevent the City from exercising governmental control over the newly-annexed area, and for a writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to hold an election under the plaintiffs’ referendum petition or to…