Opinion ID: 1124080
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: prior history

Text: The City of Horn Lake adopted an ordinance which sought to annex certain territories on December 7, 1989. The ordinance did not correctly define the entire boundary of the city and, when this matter was raised on Southaven's Pre-trial Motion to Dismiss, Horn Lake was granted leave to amend to correctly describe the currently existing boundaries. On October 18, 1990, Horn Lake passed an ordinance which corrected the faulty legal description and related back to the date of the original ordinance. Trial was held on the December 7, 1989, ordinance. Southaven again renewed its objections, but the chancellor decided that this mistake in the Horn Lake boundary description was not critical. On January 2, 1990, Southaven adopted an ordinance which sought to annex certain territory contiguous to its border. Shortly thereafter, Southaven filed its petition with the DeSoto County Chancery Court to annex an area of approximately 1 1/2 miles east of I-55 and an area of approximately 1 mile west of I-55 along the Church Road corridor. Objections to Southaven's annexation were filed by Horn Lake, the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors, the Horn Lake Water Association, and the Concerned Citizens of DeSoto Woods. On May 4, 1990, the City of Horn Lake filed a petition to annex the same one-mile tract west of I-55. Horn Lake also petitioned to annex other areas which, in addition to the area also sought by Southaven, totals two square miles wholly between Highway 51 and I-55, adjoining the south edge of a 1979 annexation and extending almost two miles south. On motion by Horn Lake, the annexation cases were consolidated for trial, which began on January 7, 1991.