State ex rel. West v. City of Des Moines
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. C. P. Holmes, Judge. Quo warranto to test tbe right of the defendant city to exercise corporate authority over certain territory added to- said city by legislative -enactment. Prior to 1890 the corporate limits of the city of Des Moines embraced eight square miles.
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Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. C. P. Holmes, Judge. Quo warranto to test tbe right of the defendant city to exercise corporate authority over certain territory added to- said city by legislative -enactment. Prior to 1890 the corporate limits of the city of Des Moines embraced eight square miles. By an act of the Twenty-third General Assembly approved March 3, 1890, it is provided “that the boundaries of all cities in this state, which had by the state census of 1885, a population of thirty thousand or more, are hereby extended two- and one-half miles in -each direction from the…
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
*5251 *524I. It is first said that the relator, A. G. .West, has not sufficient interest to authorize him to invoke the action of the court in behalf of the state. Mr. West is not a citizen of Des Moines, as enlarged; but he is the owner of land within the added territory, but not in any of the corporations as they were before the annexation. The assessed valuation of his land is eighty dollars, and it is estimated that *525he pays city taxes thereon to the amount of one dollar and thirty-one cents. This is thought to be too trifling an interest to permit him to institute the action. The law provides’…
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