Burroughs v. City of Keokuk

1. Municipal CORI’ORATIONS : public improvements : assessment: statute governing. The plaintiff owns a lot or tract of land abutting on Seventeenth Street, in the city of Keokuk. The street at this point has recently been paved, and an assessment for the expense so incurred has been levied on plaintiff’s lot. From this assessment she appealed to the district court, where her objections were overruled and the levy confirmed, and she now prosecutes a further appeal to this court.

Proceeding according to the terms of the statute as it stood prior to the enactment of Chapter 76 of the Laws of the…