City of Muscatine v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Court. — Hon. A. Howat, Judge. Action at law to recover for paving done by the plaintiff, for which the defendant is alleged to be liable. There was a trial by the court, which resulted in a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for a part of the amount it claims to be due. Both parties appeal, the appeal of the defendant having first been taken.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
On the eleventh day of September, 1885, the city council of the plaintiff ordered that First street (known in the record as “Water street”) be paved from Linn street to a point one hundred and twenty feet west of Ash street. The street ordered to be paved was one hundred feet in width. On the seventeenth day of September a notice was served upon the defendant to proceed to do the paving required by the order the width of fifty feet in front of its property which abutted on the line of the street, and to have the work completed on or before the seventeenth day of *293October. The defendant failed…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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