CITY OF MUSCATINE v. WATERS

No. 2-57636.

251 N.W.2d 544 (1977)

CITY OF MUSCATINE, Iowa, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee, v. Leroy A. WATERS et al., Defendants, Richard A. Drawbaugh et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 16, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. H. Bartley and T. L. Hinman, of Bartley, Bartley & Hinman, Iowa City, for appellants.

Harvey G. Allbee, Jr., City Atty., and Jon R. Pearce, Muscatine, for appellee.

Heard by MOORE, C. J., and MASON, RAWLINGS, LeGRAND and UHLENHOPP, JJ.


RAWLINGS, Justice.

Richard A. Drawbaugh, et al. (defendants), appeal from decree of annexation upon petition filed by plaintiff, City of Muscatine. A partially conflicting purported voluntary annexation of real estate by the City of Fruitland was held to be ineffectively subordinate to the proceedings previously initiated by Muscatine. We affirm.

The involved facts are not in dispute. Muscatine is a municipal corporation.

July 20, 1972, its city council...

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