Lamansky v. Williams
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Jefferson ' District Cowl.— Hon. M. A. Roberts, Judge. Proceedings under a writ of certiorari. The case is presented by the following statement of facts: Jefferson county lies immediately to the south of Washington county.
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Appeal from, Jefferson ' District Cowl.— Hon. M. A. Roberts, Judge. Proceedings under a writ of certiorari. The case is presented by the following statement of facts: Jefferson county lies immediately to the south of Washington county. While the county records in respect thereto are deficient in some respects, it may be said, for the purpose of the case, and especially as this is consistent with the attitude of all parties to the litigation, that in the year 1859 a highway was laid out and established by the authorities of Jefferson county, beginning on the line between said county and…
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
1. Highways: extension into adjoining county, vacation. The precise question presented by appellants may be thus stated: Can the board of supervisors of a county vacate a county road, conceded to have been established as such, which has its terminus at the county line,— it appearing that subsequent to egfokijghment authorities of the adjoining county have established a road to connect therewith, the whole thus foiming a continuous way extending from within one county to and within the other,— without the-concurrence of the board of supervisors of such adjoining county? The argument of counsel…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Curtis v. Pocahontas CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1887
- Lehmann v. RinehartSupreme Court of Iowa · 1894
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