Von Steen v. City of Beatrice

This is an appeal from a decree of the district court of Gage-county, enjoining the defendant, the city of Beatrice, from concluding a contract for the grading, paving and guttering of the streets in paving districts-numbers 9 and 10 in said city. The pleadings are too voluminous to be set out in,this opinion, but the contentions of the parties will be understood from the following statements: Ordinances were passed by the city council creating the aforesaid districts pursuant to petitions of property owners therein, and bonds voted to defray the cost of paving intersections of the- streets…