Alexander Oil Company v. City of Seguin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that quo warranto proceeding is only proper method to attack validity of city’s annexation, unless annexation is “wholly void”
• holding that a quo warranto proceeding is not necessary to challenge an annexation when the “annexation is wholly void”
• holding that “annexation ordinance was within the power of the municipality to promulgate” “because the City met the minimum notice posting requirements as a matter of law”
• holding that allegations regarding whether service plan was adequate and quorum was required to conduct hearing were matters that could be raised in quo warranto proceedings but not in a private challenge
• holding that municipality’s “jurisdiction was activated by giving notice required by statute”
• finding that suit could not be brought by a private party to challenge a city’s failure to comply with notice requirements relating to annexation ordinances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).