City of Marion v. Ganby
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn Circuit Court. This is a proceeding under the statute to condemn certain land for the purposes of a street. The cause was referred to arbitrators, and upon their report a judgment condemning the land was entered. Defendant Susan Breneman alone appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, Cii. J.
I. The plaintiff, being desirous of extending one of its streets, filed its petition in the circuit court, under authority conferred by Code, § 476, asking the condemnation of certain land therein described. The defendants were served with notice, and appeared, and entered into a written agreement, by their attorneys, with the plaintiff, to the effect that the case should be tried by “arbitrators,” to be selected by agreement, who should be “the judges both of law and feet connected with the case.” Other agreements as to the place of trial, the persons selected to try the case,…
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