Horton v. Hoyt
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Court Injunction to restrain the erection of a levee over defendant’s land. The facts necessary to an understanding of the case, are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
Under an act of the legislature of 1858, page 104, Laws of that session, the respondent, Wm. Hoyt, was duly elected levee commissioner on Muscatine Island, and qualified as such under the provisions of said act. Previous to this act, by the authority of the drainage commissioner of said county, a levee had been located on said island, extending from the city of Muscatine or some point therein, to the Louisa County line.
Under the first section of the act of 1858, all lands, city and town lots on Muscatine Island, between the location of the levee then begun and the Muscatine slough and Louisa…
2Cited by1 opinion
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