In re Statement of Consent by Certain Voters of Atlantic
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Gass District Court. — IioN. W. E. GreeN, Judge. This case is before us on appeal, by the parties filing the statement of consent, from the judgment of the district court, “that the said petition and statement of general consent is, and the same is adjudged, insufficient,” and for costs against appellants.
1Opinion of the CourtGiveN, J.
— This proceeding is under sections 2448 and 2450 of the Code, and is upon the b'asis that in September, 1897, the city of Atlantic was a city of five thousand or more inhabitants. If this were true, then, so far as we are called upon to consider it, the statement of consent was sufficient, and should have been sustained. Eemonstrances were filed by a large number of citizens upon the ground, among others. *369that Atlantic was not a city of five thousand or more inhabitants. The only evidence introduced to sustain the claim of the appellants was a census taken in September, 1897, by three…
2Cited by2 opinions
- Harp v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1957
- State ex rel. Hilfiker v. SeatonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1921