Rystad v. Drainage District No. 12
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Bue-na Yista District Court. — Hon. A.. D. Bailie, Judge. Appeal from judgment of the district court reducing the assessment made upon plaintiffs land for the construction of a ditch. —
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
— This appeal involves no objection to *86the regularity of the proceedings by which the drainage district was established and. the ditch excavated. The single question raised, though variously stated, goes to the alleged excessive assessment upon the lands of the plaintiff. This assessment the plaintiff alleges is excessive, is not in proportion to the benefits derived by his land from the improvement, and that the classification of said lands was not fixed according to the benefits; his land being already drained, in whole or in part, by a ditch constructed at his own expense, thereby reducing…
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