Legal Opinion

Gable v. City of Cedar Rapids

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided February 7, 1911PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from Linn District Court. — Hon. W. H. Treichler, Judge. Action to vacate certain streets and alleys. There was a judgment vacating same, and the city appeals. — Reversed.

1Opinion of the CourtSiierwin, C. J.

This is a proceeding to vacate E Avenue between Seventeenth Street and Nineteenth Street, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets between E Avenue and E Avenue, and an alley running east and west through the center of block two of Mound View addition, all within the. corporate limits of the city of Cedar Rapids. There was a judgment vacating E Avenue, Eighteenth Street, and the alley, but reserving to the city the right to use the same for the extension of its water and sewer systems. The action is based upon section 920 of the Code, which provides as follows:

Whenever the owners of any tract of…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Taraldson v. Incorporated Town of Lime SpringsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1894
  2. City of Waterloo v. Union Mill Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1887
  3. Sarvis v. CasterSupreme Court of Iowa · 1902
  4. Hull v. City of Cedar RapidsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1900
  5. Hunter v. City of Des MoinesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1909

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Indian Rocks Beach South Shore v. EwellSupreme Court of Florida · 1952
  2. Kelroy v. City of Clear LakeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1942
  3. In Re Appeal From Passage of Ordinance 4354 of AltoonaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
  4. Pederson v. Town of RadcliffeSupreme Court of Iowa · 1939
  5. Zollinger v. City of NewtonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1915

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