Des Moines, Aug. 28. - The suit of residents of Perry representing the business men of that city and the town council to test certain phases of the law relating to the expenditure of county funds has at last reached the Iowa supreme court. This is the suit of Roscoe E. Zerwekh and A.L. Brown against J.A. Thornburg, treasurer of Dallas county and others. It grew out of the building of the new Dallas county court house. The county voted $85,000 for the building, completing and furnishing of a court house at Adel. When the court house was built, finished and furnished the county had paid about $40,000 more than the sum voted. There was no complaint of any money being squandered and the county has a court house of which the people are proud. In fact, everyone agrees now that the county should have voted about $150,000 for a court house. But there was loud complaining in the city of Perry over the added cost to taxpayers by reason of the county officials having exceeded their authority and finally one of the city alderman and one of the directors of their commercial body, brought suit to have certain of the evidences of indebtedness canceled because issued without authority. In the lower court Judge Applegate held that the voters could not in this way limit the cost of furnishing the court house and hence this clause in the vote was of no avail. Now the case comes to the supreme court for a final statement of the law. The Perry people contend that if this is good law then there is great need of an amendment to the statute so that voters may limit the expenditure on public works. If the Dallas county decision stands then the court house building in Iowa is fraught with some danger to tax payers because the board may pay large sums under the guise of "furnishing" a court house and voters need not be consulted. The case is regarded as one of first importance.