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Emma Taylor, Administratrix of Frank Taylor, Deceased, and John P. Kirby, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Drainage District Number Fifty-six of Emmet County, Iowa, et al., 1917 — 244 U.S. 644 · caselaw · US
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Emma Taylor, Administratrix of Frank Taylor, Deceased, and John P. Kirby, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Drainage District Number Fifty-six of Emmet County, Iowa, et al.
244 U.S. 644·Supreme Court of the United States·1917
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No. 178.
Emma Taylor, Administratrix of Frank Taylor, Deceased, and John P. Kirby, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Drainage District Number Fifty-six of Emmet County, Iowa, et al.
In error to the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa.
Submitted April 19, 1917.
Decided May 21, 1917.
Mr. Edgar A. Marling for plaintiffs in error.
Mr. Hugh H. Obear for defendants in error.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam.]
Per Curiam.
Judgment affirmed with costs upon the authority of Huling v. Kaw Valley Railway Improvement Co., 130 U. S. 559; Winona & St. Paul Land Co. v. Minnesota, 159 U. S. 540; Leigh v. Green, 193 U. S. 79; Ballard v. Hunter, 204 U. S. 241, 261, 262; American Land Co. v. Zeiss, 219 U. S. 47.