Montana Supreme Court April 29, 1970, 11578 (Brodie v. City of Missoula)

MR. JUSTICE HASWELL

delivered the Opinion of the-Court.

The City of Missoula, on its own initiative and over the pro

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test of plaintiff property owners, annexed into the city their 30 acre tract of land entirely surrounded by the city. Plaintiff property owners sought a writ of mandate to set aside the annexation, but the district court of Missoula county, Hon. B.