 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1869 - 658 pages
...limitation on the right of eminent domain." Page 212, and see also p. 213. The true view is this : Municipal corporations owe their origin to, and derive their powers and rights wholly . i. from, the legislature. It breathes into them power. the breath of life, without which they cannot... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1904 - 1152 pages
...Cedar Rapids etc. 170 RR Co., 24 Iowa, 455-475, Chief Justice Dillon, speaking for the court, said : "Municipal corporations owe their origin to, and derive...their powers and rights wholly from, the legislature. ]t breathes into them the breath of life, without which they cannot exist. As it creates, so it may... | |
 | 1914 - 1370 pages
...conducting affairs of government, and as such it is subject to the control of the Legislature. They owe their origin to, and derive their powers and rights wholly from, the Legislature. Ryan v. City of New York. 69 NE 599, 601, 177 NT 271 (quoting Williams v. Eggleston, 18 Sup. Ot. 017,... | |
 | 1914 - 1398 pages
...affairs of government, and as such it is subject to the control of the Legislature. They owe tlielr origin to, and derive their powers and rights wholly from, the Legislature. Ryan v. City of New York, 69 NE 599, 601, 177 NT 271 (quoting Williams v. Eggleston, 18 Sup. Ot. 617,... | |
 | 1917 - 1208 pages
...protected by the constitutional limitation on the right of eminent domain.' "The true view is this: Municipal corporations owe their origin to, and derive...breath of life, without which they cannot exist. As it create», so may it destroy. If it may destroy, it may abridge and control. Unless there is some constitutional... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - 1928 - 598 pages
...corporations," said Judge Dillon in this case, "owe their origin to, and derive their powers and right wholly from, the legislature. It breathes into them...there is some constitutional limitation on the right (ie, in the state constitution) the legislature might, by a single act, if we can suppose it capable... | |
 | 1955 - 470 pages
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 | 1955 - 470 pages
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 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1928 - 652 pages
...opinion of Judge Dillon : "Municipal corporations owe their origin to, and derive their powersTrom, the legislature. It breathes into them the breath...which they cannot exist. As it creates, so it may de°AM Eaton, The Origin of Municipal Incorporation (1902); "The Bight of Local Self -Government, "... | |
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Municipal corporations owe their origin to, and derive their powers and rights wholly from, the legislature. It breathes into them the breath of life, without which they cannot exist. As it creates, so it may destroy. If it may destroy, it may abridge... 
