Way v. Fox
Supreme Court of Iowa
'Appeal from Hancock District Court. — HoN. J. F. Clyde, Judge. These two- cases involve the same question. The first is a certiorari proceeding to- test the legality of the proceedings of the defendants sitting as a board of supervisors in ¿hanging the site of the county buildings of Hancock county.
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'Appeal from Hancock District Court. — HoN. J. F. Clyde, Judge. These two- cases involve the same question. The first is a certiorari proceeding to- test the legality of the proceedings of the defendants sitting as a board of supervisors in ¿hanging the site of the county buildings of Hancock county. The second is an injunction suit to restrain the defendants from removing the county seat and records of said county from what was theretofore known as the village of Concord to the town of Garner. The trial court quashed the writ issued in the first case, and sustained a demurrer to the petition…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemeb, J.
About thirty years ago the county seat or seat of justice of Hancock county was located on a block of ground known as the “Court-House Square” block, situated on the southeast one-fourth of the southwest one-fourth of section 31; township 96, range 23 W., of the fifth P. 11.; the said forty acres being known as the “Town Plat of Concord.” A small unincorporated village grew up on this town plat, and ever since the location of the county seat a court house and other county buildings have been maintained upon the court-house square or block. During the whole of the said thirty years the courts…
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