In Re Chief Consolidated Mining Co.

Mammoth City is a city of the third class situated in Juab county, this state. This proceeding is to restrict the corporate limits of such city by disconnecting certain described areas from its boundaries.

What is requisite to authorize a decree severing territory from the boundaries of an existing municipality and also the procedure to obtain such a decree is found in sections 771 to 775, Comp. Laws Utah 1917. Section 771 is as follows:

“Whenever a majority of the real property owners of any territory within and lying upon the borders of any incorporated city or town shall file, with the clerk…