Packard v. Voltz
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Butler District Court. — Hon. P. W. Burr, Judge. It is in substance, shown by the petition that the plaintiff owns land in .sections 35 and 36 in one of the townships of the defendant county; that on the line between said sections is a public highway; that the natural drainage of the land in section 35 is across the line of said highway, the line of which drainage is now, and for a long time past has been, defined by a natural depression, and by ditche's…
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Appeal from Butler District Court. — Hon. P. W. Burr, Judge. It is in substance, shown by the petition that the plaintiff owns land in .sections 35 and 36 in one of the townships of the defendant county; that on the line between said sections is a public highway; that the natural drainage of the land in section 35 is across the line of said highway, the line of which drainage is now, and for a long time past has been, defined by a natural depression, and by ditche's excavated by plaintiff; that prior to the year 1892 there was maintained upon said highway a culvert or bridge about twelve feet…
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
*2791 *278I. The grounds of the demurrer are several, and it will be unnecessary to specify them, as we shall dispose of the points on the line indicated in argument. We will first notice the question as to the liability of the county. By section 1, chapter 200, Acts Twentieth General Assembly it is provided: “The board of supervisors of each county may, at the time of levying taxes for other purposes, levy a tax of not more than one mill on the dollar of the assessed value of the taxable property in their co-unty, which tax shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as *279other taxes are…
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