Legal Opinion
City of Council Bluffs v. Cain
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 21, 1983No. 83-94PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRIS, Justice.
Defendant owns a forty acre farm which has been the property of his family for more than seventy-five years. The farm is within the corporate limits of the city of Council Bluffs. Since prior to the time the farm was annexed to the city, defendant and his family have conducted a horse *812breeding business there, a business in which defendant continues to be engaged.
In 1982 the city passed an ordinance, Council Bluffs, la., Municipal Code §§ 4.20.280-4.20.410 (1982), which in part imposed a number of regulations on the keeping of farm animals. Section 4.20.280 requires anyone who…
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