Phillips v. Corbin
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the Oourt of Appeals. This is a proceeding under the act “ to provide for contiguous towns and cities to become annexed.”
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Error to the Oourt of Appeals. This is a proceeding under the act “ to provide for contiguous towns and cities to become annexed.” Session Laws, 1893, p. 451. On October 1,1894, a petition signed by John J. Phillips and thirty-seven others, who were electors and taxpayers of the town of Colfax, was filed in the county court of Arapahoe county, asking for 'an order requiring the board of trustees of the town of Colfax to call an election to determine the question whether such town should be dissolved, and the territory included therein be annexed to the city of Denver. The county court made…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goddard
The first and principal ground of error relied on for reversal of the judgment of the district court in the court of appeals and also in this court, is that the judgment is void because that court was without jurisdiction to entertain the appeal from the county court. In our opinion this objection presents the controlling question in the case. Its solution depends upon the effect to be given to section 5 of chap. 22? General Laws, 1877, appearing as section 499, General Statutes, 1883, as amended in section 1, Session Laws, 1885, p. 158 (sec. 1085, Mills’ Ann. Stat.), which reads as follows:
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2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Lusk v. KershowSupreme Court of Colorado · 1892
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