Supreme Court of Iowa January 17, 1908 (Mackay v. Hancock County)

Bishop, J.

In May, 1901, a petition addressed to the board of supervisors of Hancock county, signed by more than one hundred residents and voters of said county, was filed in the office of the county auditor of that county, setting forth that certain described lands in said county were subject to overflow; that such lands were too wet for cultivation, and constituted a menace to the public