Windsor v. City of Des Moines
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. T. F. Stevenson, Judge. Action to declare invalid a contract for certain paving in the city of Des Moines, and for an injunction to restrain the performance of the contract. Decree for plaintiffs, and the defendants appealed.—
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
The plaintiffs are fifteen in number, and are abutting property owners on West Grand avenue, from Twenty-eighth street to four hundred feet west of Park lane, in the city of Des Moines. In September, 1893, the board of public works of Des Moines entered into a contract for the paving of said avenue between the points named, which contract the plaintiffs alleged to be invalid, for the reasons, among others, that the notice required by law was not given. It is alleged in the petition that afterwards the Des Moines Brick Manufacturing Company, recognizing the invalidity of the contract, caused…
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