City of Northfield v. Holiday Manor, Inc.

CATINNA, Commissioner.

Northfield, a sixth-class city in Jefferson County, adopted an ordinance for annexation of territory consisting of a residential area, an undeveloped area, and a commercial area. Five of the property owners located in the commercial area and the owner of 6½ acres of the undeveloped area, being less than 10% of the freeholders in the territory proposed to be annexed, filed a remonstrance suit attacking the annexation. The trial court entered a summary judgment declaring the annexation void, and an appeal to this court followed.

By our opinion of March 31, 1972, we reversed…