CITY OF MONTICELLO v. ADAMS

No. 121.

200 N.W.2d 522 (1972)

CITY OF MONTICELLO, a municipal corporation of Jones County, Iowa, Appellee, v. Eugene ADAMS et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Elvin Erdahl, Monticello, and Merle D. Fishel, of Marion, for appellants.

A. N. Strittmatter, Monticello City Atty., and C. W. Garberson, Cedar Rapids, for appellee.


UHLENHOPP, Justice.

In this appeal we must decide whether the trial court rightly decreed annexation of territory by the City of Monticello, Iowa.

Heretofore, Monticello had 852 acres within the city limits and owned 95 acres outside the limits which were used for municipal purposes. When the annexation proceedings were commenced, Monticello's population was 3,509, an increase of 10% during the previous decennium. Annexation of contiguous territory appeared...

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