Sayers v. City of Lyons
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clinton District Court. TrtE town of Lyons was platted, certified and recorded, by tlie owners of tlie land upon wliicli it was situated, in 1840. Upon tlie petition of the citizens of said town, tbe General Assembly of tbe State of Iowa, by an act passed January 19fcb, 1845, (Session Laws 1845, page 109) granted to David W. Eislier, a certain parcel of land in Water street, described as follows : “to commence one hundred and eighty ■feet due cast of the south,…
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Appeal from Clinton District Court. TrtE town of Lyons was platted, certified and recorded, by tlie owners of tlie land upon wliicli it was situated, in 1840. Upon tlie petition of the citizens of said town, tbe General Assembly of tbe State of Iowa, by an act passed January 19fcb, 1845, (Session Laws 1845, page 109) granted to David W. Eislier, a certain parcel of land in Water street, described as follows : “to commence one hundred and eighty ■feet due cast of the south, ea'st corner of lot one, block five, in Lyons, and north, of Main street, tlience running one hundred and fifty feet due…
1Opinion of the CourtStockton, J.
Without deciding the question whether the legislature of the territory of Iowa had any power or authority to authorize David W. Fisher to build a ware house on the public ground of the town of Lyons; and without deciding what right or interest in the said public grounds passed to said Fisher and to his assignees, the present complainants, by virtue of the act of January 19th, 1846; there is one view of the subject which we think is decisive of the rights of the parties, and must result in the affirmance of the decree of the District Court.
Whatever rights were conferred upon Fisher by the act,…
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