Hollingsworth v. City of Greenville

Legge, Acting Justice.

Appellants, seeking to enjoin the inclusion of their land in territory annexed to the City of Greenville, appeal from an adverse circuit decree.

In August, 1961, there was -filed with the City Council of Greenville, a petition signed by a majority of the freeholders of a large territory lying to the east and south of the city limits, praying that an election be ordered to see if such territory should be annexed to the city. On July 25, 1961, appellants, owners of a strip of land bisecting, from north to south, the territory so proposed to be annexed, wrote to the mayor…