Yant v. Brooks
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. Plaintiffs are voters and tax payers of Polk county, and the defendants constitute the board of supervisors of said county.
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Appeal from Polk District Court. Plaintiffs are voters and tax payers of Polk county, and the defendants constitute the board of supervisors of said county. At a special meeting of said board beld on tbe 5th of April, 1865, in accordance with a petition duly signed by many citizens of tbe county, it was ordered, that divers propositions should he submitted to the voters of the county at a special election to be held on the 15th of May next thereafter, and among others, the question whether the county should appropriate fifteen thousand dollars to aid in the construction of a bridge across tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
Wright, Ch, J.
At the special election ordered by the board, the question of appropriating thirty thousand dollars to aid in the construction of the “Des Moines Valley Railroad” was also submitted and decided affirmatively. The court below sustained the prayer of the»petition so far as to enjoin this appropriation and all proceedings thereunder. From this order there has been no appeal. Our present inquiries are to be confined, therefore, alone to the validity of the orders of the board of supervisors and the election held thereunder, so far as they relate to the several bridges therein named,…
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