City of St. Ann v. Spanos

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• interpreting the word “adjacent” in an annexation statute, and explaining that, although the dictionary’s definition of “adjacent” includes the concept of nearness, “the word near [in that definition] is qualified by the phrase ‘having nothing of the same kind intervening’”
• interpreting the word “adjacent” in an annexation statute, and explaining that, although the dictionary’s definition of “adjacent” includes the concept of nearness, “the word near [in that definition] is qualified by the phrase ‘having nothing of the same kind intervening’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).