26 Colo. 461 | Colo. | 1899
delivered the opinion of the court.
A proceeding to annex the town of Colfax to the city of Denver was instituted in the county court of Arapahoe county in October, 1891, under an act approved April 11, 1893. In pursuance of an order of the court a special election was duly called and held in the town of Colfax on November 6, 1894 ; and from the report of the election subscribed by the mayor- and attested by the town clerk, it appeared that seventy-seven ballots were cast for annexation, and sixty-four ballots against. Llewellyn E. Corbin and John A. Lessenca filed a protest against the approval of this report. Final judgment of the county court was rendered on February 1,1895, approving the report. From this judgment protestants appealed to the district court, where the case
Affirmed.