143 N.W. 776 | S.D. | 1913
Appeal from circuit court of Lincoln county. Plaintiff’s action was to foreclose certain ditch assessment certificates, against George A. Price as owner of certain real property and Leavitt & Johnson Trust Company, a corporation, as junior mortgagee. The defendants interposed a defense to the action. That the ditch assessment certificates are void by reason of irregularities in the proceedings leading up to their issuance, in that: First, no proper record was kept of the ditch proceedings; second, because the meetings of the commissioners at which the ditch proceedings were had were not properly called; third, that the county commissioners lost jurisdiction of the proceedings because the location of the ditch was materially different from that specified in the petition; fourth, that the petition itself was not sufficient; fifth, that the bond furnished by the petitioners was not proper in form. Findings of fact and conclusions of law were entered by the -trial court, upon which a decree of foreclosure was awarded to plaintiff.
The trial court found, in substance, that the board of county commissioners of Lincoln -county, duly made an order of assessment, directing that the defendants’ land be assessed for costs of construction of drainage ditch No. 7 of said county, in the amount of $321, and that thereafter said assessment was duly and regularly equalized as provided by law; that the order of assessment was duly. recorded in the office of the auditor of Lincoln county, and a certified copy filed in the office of the county treasurer, a copy of which order is set out in full in the findings, and contains all the recitals, statements, -and findings necessary to -the- validity of such order. The findings also contain a complete copy of the
This case is governed by the principles laid down by this court in Lee v. Clark Implement Co., 141 N. W. 986. The assessment certificates sought to be foreclosed in this case were issued under the same statute construed by this court in Pee v. Clark Implement Co., supra, which is decisive of appellants’ contention
We find no error in the record, and the judgment and order of the trial court are affirmed.