Burritt v. City of Butte

This is an appeal by four property owners and two lessees of part of their property from a judgment of the district court of Silver Bow County, the Hon. Nat Allen, district judge, presiding, validating the annexation of their property into the city limits of Butte, Montana. From a consolidated judgment in two cases denying their applications for a writ of prohibition against the City of Butte to prevent annexation, the property owners and their lessees appeal.

For simplicity of identification, we shall refer to plaintiffs as Burritt, Romney Hotels, E & L Real Estate, Butte Plaza, Safeway, and…