Wells v. Grubb
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk Circuit Court. This is an action of mandamus against the clerk and trustees of the township of Franklin, in Polk county, to enforce payment for a Wauchope Grader and Ditcher, purchased, as is alleged, for the use of said township.
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Appeal from Polk Circuit Court. This is an action of mandamus against the clerk and trustees of the township of Franklin, in Polk county, to enforce payment for a Wauchope Grader and Ditcher, purchased, as is alleged, for the use of said township. The first count of the petition alleges that the trustees of said township purchased for the use of said township, a Wauchope Grader and Ditcher, and agreed to pay therefor $675, and the freight amounting to $20.65, and issued therefor one order payable on demand for $95.65, and two orders for $300 each, payable respectively on the first day of…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
1. TOWNSHIP trustees: purchase of machinery for working highways: setting apart tax. The authority-of the township trustees to purchase the grader in question is not denied. The only point relied upon by the appellants is, that the trustees had no authority to purchase the grader upon , , , , , , , x ci’ecllt> when no tax had been levied and set apart for fjie purchase thereof, and thus create a debt to be provided for out of taxes to be levied in future years.
*387Section 969 of the Code provides that the township trustees at their April meeting shall determine, “upon the amount of property tax…
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