State v. Stout

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Vast Syckel, J.

This case involves the legality of the proceedings taken to incorporate a city to be called the “ City of Bloomfield,” under the act entitled “An act for the incorporation of cities,” approved March 22d, 1895. Pamph. L., p. 551; Gen. Stat., p. 785.

The act provides “ that the inhabitants of any district lying wholly in one county, having a population exceeding five thousand, not including any territory already within the limits of any incorporated city or town, may become a body corporate by the name and title of the city of-,” &c.

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