Crary v. Hamilton County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hamilton District Court. — Hon. W. D. Evans, Judge. In assessing the expenses of constructing a drainage ditch, $800 was assessed to Mary A. Crary, as the owner of a forty-acre tract of land situated near the ditch. The owner appealed to the district court, where the assessment was confirmed, and now appeals to this court to have such assessment set aside or reduced. —
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
port of commissioners: jurisdiction. 1 Drainage- re- — No objection is made to the regularity of the proceedings, save that the commissioners provided for under Code Supp. 1902, section 1989-al2, to inspect and classify tli© lands benefited by the improvement and report an equitable apportionment of the costs and expenses to be assessed upon the property thus benefited, did not make their report within twenty days after their appointment. The statute does not, however, fix. any time for the report, the only provisions as to time being that the commissioners “shall within twenty days after…
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