Bauman v. Maple Valley Community School District

LAVORATO, Chief Justice.

Iowa Code section 62.20 allows a party against whom judgment is rendered in a contested election to appeal within twenty days to the district court. In this contested election proceeding involving a school bond issue, we must decide when the twenty-day time period for appeal began. Under the circumstances of this case, we hold that the time period began when the election contest court orally announced its decision in open court. We therefore affirm the district court’s dismissal of the appeal in this case because the appeal was too late.

I. Background Facts and…