# City of Madison v. City of Huntsville

> Supreme Court of Alabama · December 29, 1989 · 555 So. 2d 755

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7579689

## Case

- **Full name:** CITY OF MADISON v. CITY OF HUNTSVILLE LIMESTONE COUNTY and Bernard Clark v. CITY OF HUNTSVILLE
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** December 29, 1989
- **Citations:** 555 So. 2d 755; 1989 Ala. LEXIS 1037; 1989 WL 162194
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Steagall
- **Judges:** Jones, Blizzard, Hornsby, Maddox, Shores, Adams, Houston, Kennedy, Steagall
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing the rule of stare decisis but expressing reservations about allowing corridor annexations

## Opinion text

STEAGALL, Justice
(concurring specially).
I recognize that this Court’s holdings in City of Dothan v. Dale County Commission, 295 Ala. 131 , 324 So.2d 772 (1975); City of Fultondale v. City of Birmingham, 507 So.2d 489 (Ala.1987); City of Birmingham v. Wilkinson, 516 So.2d 585 (Ala.1987); City of Prichard v. City of Saraland, 536 So.2d 1386 (Ala.1988); City of Birmingham v. Blount County, 533 So.2d 534 (Ala.1988); and Johnson v. Rice, 551 So.2d 940 (Ala.1989), represent the present state of law on this subject. I recognize the significance of these opinions and the rule of stare decisis. However, I again express my reservations in regard to allowing annexation without requiring a substantial common boundary between the annexing municipality and the area to be annexed and in regard to allowing “pockets” of unincorporated property. See my comments in City of Fultondale v. City of Birmingham, City of Birmingham v. Wilkinson, and Johnson v. Rice. In my opinion, this Court needs to start all over again in the area of municipal annexation.

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