Day v. Development Authority of the City of Adel

Hill, Presiding Justice.

Certain taxpayers in the City of Adel, several of them owners and operators of grocery stores in Adel, filed suit seeking to enjoin the Development Authority of the City of Adel from developing facilities to be used as a retail grocery store by the J. H. Harvey Company.

The parties entered into stipulations of fact, including the following: The Authority has agreed to participate in a project to acquire and improve land in Adel to be used as a retail grocery store by the J. H. Harvey Company, a privately owned corporation; the Authority has purchased the land for…