JOHNSON v. MONONA-HARRISON DRAINAGE DISTRICT

No. 48657.

68 N.W.2d 517 (1955)

Lillie S. JOHNSON, W. S. Whitlock et al., Louise MacMillan et al., W. A. Fischer, F. B. Ordway et al., Herbert Johnston, M. J. Murphy et al., Mary K. Lindsay et al., Hugh G. Gray et al., Glen Guttau et al., Augustus T. Hanson, L. W. Fischer et al., Joe Heistand et al., Ralph Mikkelson, W. L. Larimore et al., Will Hathaway et al., Pearl G. Huff, Frances M. Hussell, Donald Reese, Joe E. Weaver et al., E. E. Seybold et al., William Walters et al., Thomas M. Sorenson, F. G. Oliver et al., Clarence W. Fredrickson et al., Irvin T. Hansen, Appellants, v. MONONA-HARRISON DRAINAGE DISTRICT and Paul Anderson, Earl Rowland and Lennox Hanson, the Individual Members of the Board of Trustees of the Monona-Harrison Drainage District, and J. O. Shinn, County Auditor of Monona County, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 8, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Morrow, Onawa, DeVere Watson, Council Bluffs, and K. C. Acrea, Missouri Valley, for appellants.

Prichard & Prichard and Underhill & Underhill, Onawa, for appellees.

Lowell C. Kindig, Robert B. Pike, and Robert J. Hurst, Sioux City, amici curiae.


LARSON, Justice.

The above-captioned cases were consolidated for trial in the court below, whereby the evidence taken was made applicable to all. It appears in February, 1952, the trustees of the Monona-Harrison Drainage District passed a resolution under the provisions of section 455.135, Code of 1950 (now 1954) I.C.A., appointing Keyes C. Gaynor, a graduate engineer with some forty years experience, to make surveys and a report on a proposed repair, cleanout and...

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