Pollard v. Dickinson County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dickinson Circuit Court. Proceedings were had before the supervisors of Dickinson county to establish and vacate certain roads. Plaintiff appealed to the circuit court from an order of the supervisors allowing him damages for locating the road over his lands. In the circuit court a motion of defendant to dismiss the appeal was overruled, and a motion of plaintiff to amend his claim for damages, increasing the amount thereof, was sustained.
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Appeal from Dickinson Circuit Court. Proceedings were had before the supervisors of Dickinson county to establish and vacate certain roads. Plaintiff appealed to the circuit court from an order of the supervisors allowing him damages for locating the road over his lands. In the circuit court a motion of defendant to dismiss the appeal was overruled, and a motion of plaintiff to amend his claim for damages, increasing the amount thereof, was sustained. From these rulings defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The petition presented to the board of supervisors asked that one road be established, and another vacated. It appears that the new road to be established was to take the place of the old one asked tó be vacated. At least, plaintiff so regarded it. Plaintiff, it appears, was one *439of the petitioners, and he became the principal in' the bond filed in the case before action by the supervisors, as required by the statute. He subsequently filed a claim for damages in the sum of $100, the value of his land which would be appropriated for the road. A remonstrance was filed against the vacation of…
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