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GRITTON v. CITY OF DES MOINES

No. 48847.

73 N.W.2d 813 (1955)

Earl GRITTON, Appellant, v. CITY OF DES MOINES, Iowa, Joe Van Dreser, Mayor, and Arthur Johnson, City Clerk, Appellees, Philip E. Jester, Community Chest of Des Moines, and Hawley Welfare Foundation, Intervenors-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 13, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Beving, Des Moines, for appellant.

Harold H. Newcomb, Frank D. Bianco, and Don C. Swanson, Des Moines, for appellees.

Bannister, Carpenter, Ahlers & Cooney, Des Moines, for intervenors-appellees.

GARFIELD, Justice.

Plaintiff, a resident property owner and taxpayer, brought this action in equity to enjoin the city of Des Moines from conveying a tract of land owned by it to Hawley Welfare Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, as a site for a building it plans to erect. Hawley Welfare Foundation, Community Chest of Des Moines and Philip E. Jester, a resident taxpayer, intervened by joining with the city as permitted by rule 75, Rules of Civil Procedure, 58 I.C...

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