Polk County Savings Bank v. State
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pollc, Circuit Court. The city of Des Moines caused sewers to be constructed on certain streets on which Capitol Square (which belongs to the state) fronts, and issued to the contractors who performed the work certificates of assessment against the adjacent property, including said square, and a lot belonging to the state, in payment therefor.
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Appeal from Pollc, Circuit Court. The city of Des Moines caused sewers to be constructed on certain streets on which Capitol Square (which belongs to the state) fronts, and issued to the contractors who performed the work certificates of assessment against the adjacent property, including said square, and a lot belonging to the state, in payment therefor. Plaintiffs are the owners of the certificates which evidence the assessments, made for this purpose, on the property of the state. The executive officers of the state having doubts as to the liability of the state thereon, an agreed case was…
1Opinion of the CourtEeed, J.
Capitol Square is the block of ground on which the capítol building of the state is situated. It fronts on the *26north on Sycamore street, on the south on Walnut street, and on the west on Ninth street. Locust street extends from Ninth, at a point opposite the middle of the west line of the square, westward to the Des Moines river. Walnut and Sycamore are parallel with it, and each extends also to the river. The state also owns a lot on the north side of Sycamore, on which is situated a building containing the steam-works and apparatus for heating the capitol building. Authority to purchase…
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