City of Bellevue v. Eastern Sarpy County Suburban Fire Protection District

Beginning in 1959, the city of Bellevue, Nebraska, annexed 24 tracts of land which, also, were a part of the Eastern Sarpy County Suburban Fire Protection District. The city brought this action under section 31-766, R. R. S. 1943, against the fire protection district to determine the rights, duties, and obligations of the parties.

The district court found that the territory annexed by the plaintiff city should be detached and excluded from the defendant and its boundaries changed accordingly; that the defendant should retain all of its, assets; and that the defendant should have no further…