Kneebs v. City of Sioux
Supreme Court of Iowa
'Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. F. R. Gay-nor, Judge. A writ of certiorari was issued by the district court to the defendants. Judgment was entered annulling an assessment of plaintiff’s property. Defendants appeal.—
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
Lot 1 of block 33 in Sioux City is forty-two feet wide and one hundred and fifty feet long, extending east and west, with Riverside avenue on the north. A strip of this lot along said avenue, sixteen feet wide at one end and ten feet wide at the other, belonged to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, and was used by it as a part of its right of way. The remainder of the lot was the property of the plaintiff, and he had never had any interest in that portion owned by the railway company.
In March, 1911, the city council of Sioux City adopted the necessary resolution of necessity,…
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