Town of Scott v. City of Merrill

The gravamen of the complaint is the appellant's alleged “circumventing and evading the requirements of sec. 66.021 (11) (b) pertaining to annexation of areas of one square mile or more of territory.” The defendant’s demurrer to the complaint has squarely raised the issue whether it is lawful for a city to employ separate annexation proceedings of smaller areas in order to obviate the statutory requirement of applying to the circuit court for a determination that the annexation is in the public interest. If the two regions in question were annexed in a single proceeding, the total land would…