Legal Opinion
City of Muscatine v. Waters
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided March 16, 1977No. 2-57636PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RAWLINGS, Justice.
Richard A. Drawbaugh, et al. (defendants), appeal from decree of annexation upon petition filed by plaintiff, City of Mus-catine. A partially conflicting purported voluntary annexation of real estate by the City of Fruitland was held to be ineffectively subordinate to the proceedings previously initiated by Muscatine. We affirm.
The involved facts are not in dispute. Muscatine is a municipal corporation.
July 20, 1972, its city council adopted a resolution directing the city clerk to publish notice of hearing on the annexation proposal as to the entire area here concerned,…
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- Anderson v. Santa AnnaSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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