TAYLOR v. CITY OF LONDON

No. 99-411.

88 Ohio St.3d 137 (2000)

TAYLOR ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. CITY OF LONDON, APPELLEE, ET AL.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided March 1, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lucas, Prendergast, Albright, Gibson & Newman, Robert E. Albright and Jill S. Tangeman, for appellants.

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, L.L.P., and Bruce L. Ingram; and Monte C. White, London Law Director, for appellee.

Barry M. Byron, Stephen L. Byron and John Gotherman, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Municipal League.

Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur and John F. Marsh, urging affirmance for amici curiae MTB Corp., Jerry Alcott, Norman Dunham, and DC Engineering & Development Ltd.


DOUGLAS, J.

The issue before us is whether city council had the authority to enact emergency legislation accepting the applications for annexations of the two parcels of land to the city of London. For the reasons that follow, we answer this question in the affirmative.

As a threshold matter, it is clear that we must, as a matter of law, accept all of the allegations of appellants' complaint as true. Mitchell v. Lawson Milk Co. (1988),...

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