Gray v. Mount
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Guthrie Ciruit Court. In chancery. The petition alleges, as grounds of relief: 1. The county of Guthrie holds $21,388.94, proceeds of swamp lands heretofore sold by the county and known as the Swamp Land Fund. 2.- That on the ■ 4th day of January, 1876, the board of supervisors of the county, constituted of defendants as members, upon a petition of certain legal voters, ordered a special election to be held in the several voting precincts of the county, to be…
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Appeal from Guthrie Ciruit Court. In chancery. The petition alleges, as grounds of relief: 1. The county of Guthrie holds $21,388.94, proceeds of swamp lands heretofore sold by the county and known as the Swamp Land Fund. 2.- That on the ■ 4th day of January, 1876, the board of supervisors of the county, constituted of defendants as members, upon a petition of certain legal voters, ordered a special election to be held in the several voting precincts of the county, to be held on the 14th of February, 1876, at which the following proposition was submitted to the electors: “ Shall the Swamp…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
i coíístitustatutes not ' c&efswamp land fund. I. It is first insisted by plaintiffs that the submission of the proposition to the voters and their adoption thereof are illegal and void, because the election at which the popular will was expressed was sPecial- Relying upon Code, § 303, par. 24, they contend that questions of this kind can be submitted to the people only at a general election. This provision prescribes that the supervisors shall not order the construction of any public building exceeding in cost $5,000, until a proposition therefor shall have been submitted to and adopted by…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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