In Re Petition of City of Shawnee for Annexation of Land

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Cook, District Judge Assigned:

These cases arise from the attempts of the City of Shawnee to annex a parcel of land in Johnson County. Case number 55,901 is a direct appeal from Shawnee’s original annexation proceedings; the appellants Builders Sand Company, et al. are aggrieved landowners in the subject area who were allowed to intervene for the purpose of appeal. Case number 56,249 is a collateral attack on Shawnee’s attempted annexation, brought by the City of Bonner Springs as a declaratory judgment action.

The City of Shawnee is a city of the first…