Legal Opinion

Christenson v. Board of Supervisors

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 3, 1917PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal from Hamilton District Court. — H. E. Fry, Judge. Appeal in a drainage proceeding. In the district court, the respective plaintiffs were appellants from an order entered by the board of supervisors in a drainage proceeding. The two appeals were consolidated, and the trial court sustained the appeal of each plaintiff. From such order of the trial court, the defendants have appealed.

1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.

l. drains : assessment of benefits: lump sum The board of supervisors of Hamilton Countv established Drainage Dis- * ^ ° frict Number 153, known in this record as the Anfinson District. This district was contiguous to a drainage district previously organized, known as the Bear Creek District Number 124. The new district was so- organized that its outlet discharged its water toward and into the same creek which took- the water of the Bear Creek district. The new district contemplated an outlet that was deeper than that of the old district. There is much confusion in the record of the board of…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Bloomquist v. Board of SupervisorsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1920
  2. Nervig v. Joint Boards of Supervisors of Polk & Story CountriesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1922
  3. Board of Supervisors v. McDonaldSupreme Court of Iowa · 1920
  4. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Board of SupervisorsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1918
  5. Loomis v. Board of SupervisorsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1919

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