Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Board of Supervisors
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hamilton District Court. — C. E, Albrook, Judge. The right of way and other lands owned by plaintiff within the above-named district were assessed with a part of the cost of constructing the drainage system, and it appealed to the district court from the assessment so made. On a hearing of the evidence, the court confirmed assessment as levied by the board of supervisors, and plaintiff again appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
— The district is made up of farm* lands and part of the town of Kamrar, and includes a total area of about 2,200 acres, through the east part of which runs appellant’s right of way, for a distance of about 1% miles. The right of way proper is 100 feet wide. The station grounds are 2,000 feet in length, and, according to the scale of the plat submitted by appellant, are 300 feet wide, or, as stated by counsel, 260 feet. In its natural condition, the land, while not hilly, is uneven, alternating frequently between dry elevations and tracts of wet or swampy character, the whole constituting an…
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