Legal Opinion
City of Carmel v. Steele
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided May 2, 2007No. 29S02-0604-CV-139PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On Petition To Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 29A02-0503-CV-245
RUCKER, Justice.
When a municipality proceeds to annex territory as a result of a petition requesting it to do so, the legal description of the territory as set forth in the annexation ordinance determines whether the territory is contiguous to a municipality’s corporate boundaries. Here, the trial court looked beyond the ordinance to the legal description in the petition that inspired the ordinance. We conclude that to do so in this case was beyond the scope of trial court review.
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