State v. Lane
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clayton District Court. The defendant was indicted for obstructing a highway. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, the State offered in evidence two volumes of records: one a “road record,” and the other a “ road, plat, and survey repord ” of Clayton county, and proposed to read to the jury from the first, as follows : “May Term, A. D. 1855. At the May Term of the County Court, 1855, a petition of Orman Dart and others was pi’esented for a road commencing at the…
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Appeal from Clayton District Court. The defendant was indicted for obstructing a highway. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, the State offered in evidence two volumes of records: one a “road record,” and the other a “ road, plat, and survey repord ” of Clayton county, and proposed to read to the jury from the first, as follows : “May Term, A. D. 1855. At the May Term of the County Court, 1855, a petition of Orman Dart and others was pi’esented for a road commencing at the quarter post between sections 23 and 26; thence west to the corner of sections 26 and 27, 22 and 23; thence south-west to the…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
1. Highways: uncertainty in establishment. — The only point presented for our decision, is, as to the admissibility of the two records in evidence. The plat and survey record shows the same _ . beginning and terminus, as the road record shows the petition to ask for; and the line as surveyed shows substantially the same route as petitioned for; the variations from a direct line are but slight and immaterial, and may have been occasioned and required by natural obstacles. The termini are, beyond question, sufficiently certain, under the rule, id cerium est q_uod eertum reddipotest.
2. Evidence:…
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