106 Iowa 731 | Iowa | 1898
The short facts recited in the petition are that the defendants are unlawfully and illegally holding office as members of the town council of the town of Bussey, for the reason that the town was never legally incorporated. It is charged that no petition of the inhabitants of the territory proposed to be incorporated was ever presented to the district court of Marion county, no commissioners were ever appointed by said court to hold the election to determine the question of