# Johnson v. Rice

> Supreme Court of Alabama · June 23, 1989 · 551 So. 2d 940

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9933357

## Case

- **Full name:** Keith Johnson v. Frank D. Rice Keith Johnson v. Marshall County Concerned Citizens, an Unincorporated Association. Jlj, Inc. v. Marshall County Concerned Citizens, an Unincorporated Association Jlj, Inc. v. Frank D. Rice
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** June 23, 1989
- **Citations:** 551 So. 2d 940; 1989 WL 99055
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Steagall
- **Judges:** Almon, Almon's, Houston, Issue, Jones, Maddox, Standing, Steagall, Writing
- **Cited by:** 8 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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” (emphas…

## Opinion text

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

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