Lyon v. Board of Supervisors
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Sac District Court. — Hon. F. M. Powers and Z. A. Church, Judges. ®N the petition of Albert and Frederick Winkler, •and over the objections of Cora L. Lyons and others, a. drainage district was established by the board of supervisors.
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Appeal from Sac District Court. — Hon. F. M. Powers and Z. A. Church, Judges. ®N the petition of Albert and Frederick Winkler, •and over the objections of Cora L. Lyons and others, a. drainage district was established by the board of supervisors. Also commissioners assessed the costs of the improvement against the several tracts of land benefitted; and to the report filed by them Mrs. Lyons and others interposed objections, which were overruled, and the portion of costs assessed against her land increased. She appeals from both orders — that establishing the drainage district and that levying…
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
i. drainage-oftadisfaS:e:nt statutes. All or portions of twenty-sis forty acre tracts were included in the drainage district, making nine hundred and four acres in all. Three acres of this were eliminated by the commission appointed to apportion the costs among the several tracts, The petition praying for the improvement contained the allegations necessary under sections 1989-al and 1989-a2 of the Code Supplement, described the several tracts of land proposed for the drainage district, and was accompanied by a bond, duly approved. The petition alleged the body or district of land, described…
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