Whitfield v. Sears

This ease has been before us on a former appeal from a ruling sustaining defendants’, motion to dismiss plaintiff’s amended and substituted petition as amended. Whitfield v. Grimes, 229 Iowa 309, 294 N. W. 346. There has been no change of plaintiff's pleadings since that appeal except for an amendment substituting successor supervisors as defendants. (Throughout this opinion when we refer to “defendants” the term will include, where the context requires, not merely the present defendants but also their predecessors in office.)

Upon remand defendants filed answer in three divisions designed to…