Oliver v. Monona County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Monona District Court. — Hon. Wm. Hutchinson, Judge. These three cases were tried together in the hnver court. In the first, Oliver and others seek to enjoin further work in constructing a ditch under authority of the board, of supervisors of defendant county, and to cancel and enjoin the collection of assessments on the property of plaintiffs for the construction of said ditch.
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Appeal from Monona District Court. — Hon. Wm. Hutchinson, Judge. These three cases were tried together in the hnver court. In the first, Oliver and others seek to enjoin further work in constructing a ditch under authority of the board, of supervisors of defendant county, and to cancel and enjoin the collection of assessments on the property of plaintiffs for the construction of said ditch. The second case is an appeal by Oliver to the district court from the action of the board of supervisors in assessing on his land a portion of the expense of constructing said ditch. In the third case…
1Opinion of the Court
McClain, J. —
1 The proceedings of the supervisors of Monona county in locating the ditch in question, which is named the “Wattles Ditch,” — the original survey therefor having been made bj^ Wattles, as engineer, under the authority of the commissioner appointed by the county auditor to locate the ditch, — were instituted in 1886, under section 2, of chapter 186, of the Acts of the Twentieth General Assembly (McClain’s Code, section 1865)r bjr the filing with'the county auditor of a petition purporting to be signed by more than 100 persons, including plaintiff Oliver, describing themselves as…
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