Mayor of Valverde v. Shattuck
Supreme Court of Colorado
JSrror to the County Court of Arapahoe County. Special proceeding in the county court under the act of April 11, 1893, providing for the annexation of contiguous towns and cities.
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JSrror to the County Court of Arapahoe County. Special proceeding in the county court under the act of April 11, 1893, providing for the annexation of contiguous towns and cities. See Session Laws of that year, p. 451. Upon petition hy citizens of the town of Valverde for thu dissolution of said town and for its annexation to the city of Denver, the court made an order requiring the mayor and trustees of said town to call an election for the purpose of determining the question of dissolution and annexation. The original order required the question to be submitted “ to a vote of the qualified…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Elliott
The assignments of error are to the effect; first, that'the final judgment, or modified order, of the county court is contrary to the terms of the annexation act under which this proceeding was instituted; and, second, that the act itself is unconstitutional and void.
1. That the modified order does not follow the terms of the act is apparent from the language of sections 2 and 5, hereinafter quoted. See Session Laws 1893, p. 451, et seq.
The county court evidently concluded that the objection to the statute on the ground of its supposed unconstifcutionality, might be obviated by rejecting that…
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