Muscatine Water Co. v. Muscatine Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Court. — Hon. C. M. Waterman, Judge. Action to recover an amount alleged to be due by virtue of an agreement to extend the system of waterworks of the plaintiff to certain premises occupied by the defendant. There was a trial by the court without a jury, and a judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
In the year 1882, the plaintiff owned and operated a system of waterworks in the city *113of Muscatine, and the defendant owned a lumber mill and lumber yard situated on blocks numbered eighteen, nineteen and twenty, in the same city, between Front and Second streets, and on some lots north of Second street, opposite the blocks specified. On the sixteenth day of March, 1882, the board of directors of the plaintiff took action, shown by the minutes of its proceedings, as follows:
“Resolved, that the street mains be extended on Second and Cypress streets * * * (when authorized by the city council) *…
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