100 Iowa 131 | Iowa | 1896
I. The cause was submitted on an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that the defendants are the trustees of Boyer township; that a petition was presented to the board to consolidate the road districts of the township into one highway district; that the names on the petition represented a majority of the voters of the township; that a remonstrance was also presented with the petition, on which were names appearing on the petition; that, deducting from the names on the petition those appearing on both the petition and the remonstrance, the remainder would not be a majority of the voters of the township; that the board disregarded the remonstrance, and treated the petition as containing a majority of the voters, and made an order consolidating the road districts as prayed. The district court adjudged the proceedings, by which the districts were consolidated, void.