J. Dan Willows v. City Lewiston

This is an action by a group of qualified electors and taxpayers residing in Nez Perce County, in which they sought judgment
forever enjoining and restraining the City of Lewiston from performing any further acts and proceedings to annex an area adjacent
to the City, which area includes what is commonly referred to as the "Lewiston Orchards," under the provisions of the Charter
at that time in effect, the City having existed under such special charter continuously since January 15, 1863. The facts are not disputed and in fact the action was submitted to the trial court upon "admitted facts," the pertinent ones
of which are as follows: that the plaintiffs-appellants and cross-respondents (hereinafter referred to as appellants) are
all citizens, residents, qualified electors and taxpayers of Nez Perce County, Idaho, and are owners of land within the boundaries
of the area which the defendant-respondent, and cross-appellant (hereinafter referred to as the respondent) was attempting
to annex; that the respondent is a municipal corporation of the State of Idaho, originally existing under the special charter
granted by an act of the legislature of the Washington Territory, approved in 1863 and continued in effect by the provisions
of Article I, § 2 of the Constitution of the State of Idaho; that on July 15, 1968 the city council of respondent
prepared and filed an ordinance describing the boundaries of the district proposed to be annexed and caused notice thereof
to be regularly published as provided in the Charter; that respondent proceeded as it did under the authority of, and pursuant
to, Section 224 of the Charter which provides as follows: