City of Tuscaloosa v. Kamp

HOUSTON, Justice.

The City of Tuscaloosa appeals from a judgment declaring void its annexation of adjacent unincorporated territory. The owners of several businesses operating within that territory had challenged the annexation on the ground that the act providing for the annexation (Act No. 93-708, Ala.Acts 1993) was not passed in accordance with Art. IV, § 106, Alabama Constitution of 1901, as amended by Amendment No. 341. Relying on City of Mobile v. Aborady, 600 So.2d 1009 (Ala.1992), the trial court ruled that a legislative amendment decreasing the area of the territory to be annexed from…