Jensen v. Bountiful City

HENRIOD, Justice:

Appeal from a Quo Warranto proceeding initiated by several resident property owners in an area sought by other property owners to be annexed to Bountiful City. Reversed, with no costs awarded.

The statute allowing such annexation requires that a petition be filed, signed by a majority of the owners and not less than a sufficient number of owners representing a third in valuation of the *160property, “as shown by the last assessment rolls.” 1

There were 373 such owners shown on the assessment rolls, and 199 signatories to the petition for annexation, which ordinarily would comply…