Amery v. City of Keokuk
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lee Circuit Court. The plaintiff seeks by this action to recover from the city of Keokuk certain taxes paid for macadamizing a street, which taxes were levied upon certain real estate of the plaintiff* abutting upon the street upon which the improvement was made. There was a trial to the court without a jury, and a judgment was rendered for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Rothrock, J
-I. The city council of the city of Keokuk, on the 10th day March, 1882, ordered that Franklin street, in said city, be macadamized from Ninth to Tenth streets. The work was let to a contractor at a stipulated price. During the progress of the work, the city made an apportionment of the expense of the work among the owners of the abutting property, by which- apportionment they charged the cost of the improvement, by virtue of the contract, to the lots and parts of lots, according to the number of feet which each lot or part of lot fronted on said improvement. There was apportioned…
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