· 8/20/1986
Hancock v. City Council of Davenport
Citations
- 392 N.W.2d 472
- 1986 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1253
How courts have described this case
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- recognizing city’s authority to declare and abate nuisances under its police powers through enforcement of reasonable city ordinances
- declining to reinstate claim for damages asserted in a certiorari proceeding, reasoning that “certiorari action was necessarily limited . . . to questions of jurisdiction or illegality of the actions complained of” (cleaned up)
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Judges: Wolle, Neuman
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