Langworthy v. City of Dubuque
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Dubuque District Court. COMPLAINANTS seek to restrain the city from collecting certain taxes levied upon their lands for the year 1858. The lands assessed are outside the corporate limits as fixed by the “ Act of February 24, 1847,” but included by the amendatory act of January 22, 1853, (p. 89.) The right of the city to tax this character of property is the question involved. contended that Morford v. Unger, 8 Iowa, 82, differed from these cases in several…
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Appeal from, Dubuque District Court. COMPLAINANTS seek to restrain the city from collecting certain taxes levied upon their lands for the year 1858. The lands assessed are outside the corporate limits as fixed by the “ Act of February 24, 1847,” but included by the amendatory act of January 22, 1853, (p. 89.) The right of the city to tax this character of property is the question involved. contended that Morford v. Unger, 8 Iowa, 82, differed from these cases in several particulars: 1. In that case tbe act enlarging tbe city limits was approved July 14, 1856; and tbe question as to tbe right…
1Opinion of the CourtWright, J.
— The labor of counsel in these cases has been fully equal to their importance to the city and parties sought to be taxed. By the amendatory act the city limits were increased some 6,000 acres, and we are to determine whether the lands thus included, of the character and description specified in the petitions of complainants, (for these are two cases each involving the same question,) can be taxed by the corporation.
The question might be greatly elaborated, but, in our *88opinion, it is so fully and satisfactorily settled in tbe case of Morford v. Unger, 8 Iowa, 82, that further argument could…
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