Koons v. Lucas
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clinton Circuit Court. It is averred in the petition that the plaintiff is the oiyner of certain real estate abutting on Second street, in the eity of Clinton; that in the 'years 1868 and 1869 said city by its council established the grade on said Second street, and ordered the owners of property abutting on said street to macadamize the same in front of their property with rubble stone, including the gutters on said street, which were to be paved with stone;…
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Appeal from Clinton Circuit Court. It is averred in the petition that the plaintiff is the oiyner of certain real estate abutting on Second street, in the eity of Clinton; that in the 'years 1868 and 1869 said city by its council established the grade on said Second street, and ordered the owners of property abutting on said street to macadamize the same in front of their property with rubble stone, including the gutters on said street, which were to be paved with stone; that the plaintiff and other owners of property abutting on said street complied with said order and macadamized said…
1Opinion of the Court
Rothbock,. J.
I. We have given the substance'of the pleadings, or so much thereof as is necessary to a full understanding of the questions which are involved in the record. Counsel for appellant lias filed an elaborate argument, some of which has no application to the issues contained in the pleadings. For example, the pleadings do not question the validity of the ordinance and resolutions providing for improving the streets, and we are.treated to a lengthy argument upon the invalidity of these acts of the city council, because it is contended that they contain more than one subject, and are,…
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