MacGowan v. Village of Gibbon

This is a proceeding to detach agricultural lands of plaintiffs from the village of Gibbon under the statutory provision that OAvners of unoccupied territory Avithin and adjacent to the corporate limits of any city or village may file in the district court a petition for detachment of such territory. Comp. St. 1911, ch. 14, art. I, sec. 101. The relief sought by plaintiffs is resisted on three grounds: (1) The proceeding is barred by the statute of limitations. (2) A former OAvner of part of the territory in question signed a petition for an election to vote municipal bonds, and *773thereby…