Ross v. City of Iowa City

OXBERGER, Chief Judge.

Defendants appeal from an interlocutory order overruling their motions to dismiss an equitable action seeking a declaratory judgment that the assessments of all commercial and industrial property within the city are invalid. We reverse the action of the district court and dismiss plaintiffs’ case.

Plaintiffs, individual owners of commercial and industrial property, filed a petition in equity seeking a declaratory judgment that the tax assessments of all such property within the city are invalid. The petition alleged that defendant Hudson had unlawfully delegated statutory…