98 Iowa 655 | Iowa | 1896
There is no dispute that the street in front of appellant’s lot was improved, as set
The amount involved in this suit is aboutjtwentyeight dollars. It is presented to this court upon questions certified by the district court, which were thought to be of sufficient importance to authorize an appeal. We will not set out these questions. They were, doubtless, prepared by counsel for the defeated party, and they are twelve in number, and appear to cover about every conceivable objection which can be made to the proceedings of the city council in ordering and making said improvement, and providing means for paying the expense attending the undertaking. Some of them are mere repetitions of questions of law embraced in others, and other questions are of so little consequence, that they demand no consideration. We will endeavor to dispose of such questions as are involved in the case, as appears from the issues which we have stated, and the questions certified; and we will do this in a general way, without setting out in extenso any part of the certificate.
The case involves the question whether the city council, in ordering the improvements and issuing warrants and bonds to the contractors in payment for
What we have said disposes of every objection made to the assessment in question. It is true, the questions certified are not answered seriatim; but when it is determined that the legalizing act is valid, and that the bonds issued are payable from the city
The amount involved in this appeal is trifling, and we might have disposed of it in a much more summary way than we have done; but both parties to the controversy requested a full consideration of the case, as the assessments in dispute, amount in the aggregate, to about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The decree of the district court is affirmed.