City of Garden Grove v. City of Santa Ana

These are appeals from judgments denying petitions for writs of mandate. Involved is a determination of the validity of an annexation proceeding by the respondent city of Santa Ana; instituted under the Annexation Act of 1913 (Gov. Code, §§ 35100-35158), governing the annexation of inhabited territory; identified as the “West Santa Ana Annex”; and covering 2,308.1 acres of land. Following the requisite preliminary proceedings, which included filing a map and description of the territory to be annexed with the boundary commission, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, on October 17, 1958, adopted a resolution approving the circulation of a petition requesting such annexation. Shortly before the adoption of this resolution the boundary commission made its report which revealed that the proposed territory included a small parcel of property, 10 acres in size, which was a part of the territory sought to be annexed to the city of Garden Grove under the Annexation of Uninhabited Territory Act of 1939 (Gov. Code, §§ 35300-35321), under a proceeding designated “Annexation No. 63,” and covering 116.5 acres of land. For reasons not disclosed by the record, the information contained in…