State ex rel. Benjamin Bowman, et al vs. City of Elizabethton

In this condemnation suit the landowners, whose property was originally proposed to be annexed but later excluded, appeal the Trial Judge's determination that they have no standing to prosecute the suit contesting the annexation. Other landowners who were in the original annexation ordinance and remained therein after the amended ordinances excluding realtors, sought to intervene and contest the City's right to annex. Their suit was likewise dismissed upon a finding by the Trial Court that they had not filed an exception within the 30-day period allowed by Statute. We affirm the Trial Court's resolution both as to the Realtors and the parties attempting to intervene.