Collins v. City of Keokuk
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lee District Court. — How. II. Bakic, Jr., Judge. This is a proceeding by certiorari. A demurrer to. the petition was sustained, and, the plaintiff failing to plead further, judgment was rendered agaist him for costs, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBobiNSON, C. J.
The petition alleges that the plaintiff is a resident and taxpayer of the city of Keokuk, and a consumer of water; that in June 1877, the council of the defendant city of Keokuk passed an ordinance which authorized the defendant, the Keokuk Waterworks Company, to establish and maintain waterworks within the city for the period of twenty years; that the company constructed and established such works and maintained them, and supplied the city and its citizens with water, until the ninth day of October, 1896, when the council passed another ordinance, which took effect on the first day of…
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