Bartels v. Woodbury County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — David Mould,-Judge. This is au action in equity to enjoin tbe county and its officers from completing the construction of a concrete culvert and from filling in the space under a former trestle bridge at the sides of the culvert and impeding or obstructing the water of a small'stream flowing through plaintiff’s premises, and from destroying or removing an existing bridge so as to interfere with or destroy plaintiff’s runway for stock…
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Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — David Mould,-Judge. This is au action in equity to enjoin tbe county and its officers from completing the construction of a concrete culvert and from filling in the space under a former trestle bridge at the sides of the culvert and impeding or obstructing the water of a small'stream flowing through plaintiff’s premises, and from destroying or removing an existing bridge so as to interfere with or destroy plaintiff’s runway for stock from his land on either side of the highway, and from maintaining the highway without providing and maintaining an…
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
About the year 1902, one Simpson owned 160 acres of land. A road was established, running north and south, which divided his farm into two parts, leaving 80 acres on either side of the new highway. Simpson appealed to the district court from the amount of damages allowed him by the appraisers and the board of supervisors, the *84appraisers having allowed him $600, and the board of supervisors, upon a hearing, having reduced it to $300. The controversy was settled by paying Simpson $550, and it was agreed by the board of supervisors that the bridge to be constructed by the county in the highway…
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- Agne v. SlitsingerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1895
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