150 Iowa 370 | Iowa | 1911
Plaintiff owned the east half of lot 1 and the east half of lot 18, in Sheppard’s addition to the city of Des Moines. Each of these half lots was forty-one feet, extending east and west, by sixty-seven feet north and south ¿butting on East Second Street. The city caused this street to be paved from Grand Avenue to Maple Street and- special assessments were levied as follows:
Proportion of intersection on 67 linear feet...... 48.83
Pro rata expense ............................ 3.48
Total...................................$266.38
The levy on east half lot eighteen was the same. No waiver was filed, and plaintiff alleged that these assessments were made without authority of law, in that (1) notices fixing the time for hearing of objections to the proposed resolution of necessity were not published as required by law; (2) the resolution did not specify that the cost of intersections should be assessed against abutting property, and contained no provision with reference thereto; and (3) the total assessments against the half lots amounted to $532.76, their assessed value was $1,500, and, as no other value was shown, the excess over $375 was void. The plaintiff was a resident of Woodbury County without actual knowledge of the proceedings, and in no manner participated therein. The relief sought was the vacation of the assessments, and that defendants be restrained from collecting them. The demurrer sustained was general with the- suggestion that plaintiff’s remedy was by appeal.