Independent District v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Hon. Robert Sloan, Judge. This action is against C. 0. Taylor, the board of supervisors of Wapello county, and 0. P. Bizer, F. J. Baum, and Norman Reno, members of said board. It is in equity, to recover from said Taylor one hundred and eight dollars and thirty-four cents, with interest, taxes paid by said Taylor to the county for the plaintiff, and alleged to have been illegally refunded and paid back to said Taylor.
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Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Hon. Robert Sloan, Judge. This action is against C. 0. Taylor, the board of supervisors of Wapello county, and 0. P. Bizer, F. J. Baum, and Norman Reno, members of said board. It is in equity, to recover from said Taylor one hundred and eight dollars and thirty-four cents, with interest, taxes paid by said Taylor to the county for the plaintiff, and alleged to have been illegally refunded and paid back to said Taylor. Decree was rendered in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant Taylor, for one hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty-two cents,…
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
1 *6202 B *619I. The facts of this case are undisputed, and those necessary to be noticed are as follows: The plaintiff has existed and operated as an independent school district, under the laws of Iowa, for forty years last past. The record of its organization has been lost. For over thirty years the northeast one-fourth of the northwest one-fourth, and the southwest qne-f ourth of the southeast one-fourth of section 14, township 72, range 14, Wapello county, have been treated by the plaintiff, the county, and the owners of said land as within the plaintiff district, and taxes for the use of said…
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