Martin v. Simpkins
Supreme Court of Colorado
Mrror to the County Court of Arapahoe County. Special proceeding in the county court under the act of April 11, 1893, providing for the annexation of contiguous towns and cities.
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Mrror to the County Court of Arapahoe County. Special proceeding in the county court under the act of April 11, 1893, providing for the annexation of contiguous towns and cities. Session Laws of that year, p. 451. The act contains, among other things, the following: “ Sec. 2. A petition -subscribed by not less than twenty-five electors who are taxpayers of such town, or fifty electors who are taxpayers of such city, existing under general laws, praying for the dissolution of such town or city, and the annexation of the same to the city existing under a special charter, may be filed in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Elliott
The motion to dismiss the writ of error in this case calls for a further consideration of the “ Act to Provide for Contiguous Towns and Cities to Become Annexed.” See Session Laws, 1893, p. 451.
In Mayor and Trustees of the Town of Valverde v. Shattuck, *44219 Colo. 104, certain proceedings of the county court under said statute were reviewed and reversed by writ of error from this court. There was no motion to dismiss or quash in the Valverde Case, nor was any objection to the review by this court interposed by either party. As counsel say, the writer of this opinion, during the argument of that…
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