City of Homewood v. State, City of Birmingham

These appeals from summary judgments raise the issue of whether property owners, whose properties were the subject of annexation ordinances of the City of Homewood, are indispensable parties to quo warranto actions seeking to invalidate those ordinances.

There are ten separate summary judgments from which these appeals were taken. The judgments were entered in quo warranto actions filed pursuant to Tit. 7, § 1136, Code 1940 (§ 6-6-591, Code 1975), attacking the validity of ordinances of the City of Homewood annexing parcels of real property of owners who petitioned Homewood to do so pursuant…