explaining that the basis for the rule that two parcels of land on opposite sides of a public road are contiguous “rests most comfortably upon a common sense recognition and understanding of what is necessary for the proper and efficient functioning of city government” (emphasis added)
How later courts described this case
- explaining that the basis for the rule that two parcels of land on opposite sides of a public road are contiguous “rests most comfortably upon a common sense recognition and understanding of what is necessary for the proper and efficient functioning of city government” (emphasis added)
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
I concur in that part of the majority opinion that upholds our rejection of the long-lasso doctrine and, thus, disallows certain annexations. I dissent from that part of the majority opinion which allows annexation without requiring a substantial common boundary between the Guntersville city limits and the land to be annexed. See my separate opinion concurring in the result in City of Fultondale v. City of Birmingham , 507 So.2d 489 , 491 (Ala. 1987). *Page 947