Opinion ID: 1579159
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Heading: The Procedural Challenge.

Text: At the outset, we take note of the city's challenge to the highly irregular procedure that was followed in the present case. An order of a district associate judge, facially valid, granting the city authority to abate the nuisance had been issued. More than four months after that order, an effort was made through an independent action in equity to enjoin the abatement procedure that had been authorized by the district associate judge. This challenge, on its face, was presented as a collateral attack on the district associate judge's order and was not an appeal therefrom. If it had been an appeal, it was untimely. The city challenged this procedural irregularity by a motion to dismiss the request for an injunction. That motion should have been granted. We hold that the order of the district associate judge authorizing abatement of the nuisance was not subject to collateral attack by the subsequently initiated injunction proceeding.