SUEPPEL v. CITY COUNCIL OF IOWA CITY

No. 51745.

136 N.W.2d 523 (1965)

Francis W. SUEPPEL, Robert H. Lorenz, and Norman Richard Holzaepfel, Appellants, v. The CITY COUNCIL of the City of IOWA CITY and Mayor Richard Burger, James Nesmith, William Hubbard, Max Yocum and William Maas, as Members of the City Council of the City of Iowa City, Glen Eckard, City Clerk of the City of Iowa City, Carsten Leikvold, City, Manager of the City of Iowa City, and D. W. Norton, Mrs. Paul Cilek, Robert Osmundson, Robert Allen, Tim Brandt, Richard Buxton and F. X. Cretzmeyer, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied September 20, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Meardon, Ansel Chapman and Robert N. Downer, Iowa City, for appellants.

Jay H. Honohan, City Atty., Iowa City, for appellees.


SNELL, Justice.

This is an action at law instituted by the members of the Park Commission of the City of Iowa City against the city council of Iowa City, the members thereof and others. Plaintiffs asked for a Writ of Certiorari to hold for naught the action of said council abolishing the Park Commission and establishing a new Park and Recreation Commission in Iowa City.

The issue is whether under section 363C.15, Code of Iowa, I.C.A., the city council of Iowa...

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