City of Pike Road v. City of Montgomery and Dow Corning Alabama, Inc

Summary

The court affirmed the judgment on the pleadings holding that Pike Road's police jurisdiction extended only one and one-half miles because no federal decennial census or properly conducted municipal census established that Pike Road exceeded 6,000 inhabitants. It construed the population provision together with related municipal-census statutes and rejected Pike Road's reliance on a population estimate, a prior judicial finding, and postjudgment annexations. Justice Lyons concurred in the result on a different statutory basis, while Justices Murdock, Moore, and Shaw dissented and would have allowed Pike Road to establish its population by other means.