DES MOINES METRO. AREA v. CITY OF GRIMES

No. 91-976.

495 N.W.2d 746 (1993)

DES MOINES METROPOLITAN AREA SOLID WASTE AGENCY, Appellant, v. CITY OF GRIMES, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 17, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Brick of Brick, Seckington, Bowers, Swartz & Gentry, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas Henderson of Whitfield & Eddy, Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and SCHULTZ, CARTER, LAVORATO, and SNELL, JJ.


SCHULTZ, Justice.

This appeal presents issues concerning the constitutionality of an ordinance placing a seven-ton weight limitation on a street in the City of Grimes (City). The Des Moines Area Solid Waste Agency (Agency) wants to use this street as an access road for its garbage trucks, which exceed the seven-ton limit, and challenges the legality of the ordinance by a declaratory judgment action. The district court held the City's ordinance was legal. We affirm...

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