Bloomquist v. Board of Supervisors
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hardin District Court. — G. D. Thompson, Judge. In the district court, this was an appeal from an assessment of benefits. Two appeals were consolidated, and tried as one. On trial in the district court, a reduction was allowed to the plaintiffs to the extent of 33^ per cent. Both parties appealed. The defendant board of supervisors, having first perfected its appeal, appears in this record as appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
The drainage improvement under consideration was made to and upon a former drainage improvement, and consisted of cleaning, deepening, and widening an open ditch, formerly constructed, and of converting a substantial portion of the same into a covered tile drain. It involved no change of the boundaries of the former district or of the line of location of the former drain. It did, however, appropriate more land for the widened ditch and the increased berms. The former district was known as No. 3, of Hardin County; and known also in the record as the Dougan district. It was originally…
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