Burgess v. Magarian

To a fair understanding of the legal questions involved, we gather the following facts from the record:

Walter E. Burgess, one of the plaintiffs herein, about April 1, 1911, became the owner of 13 acres of land in the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 32, township 78, range 24, West of 5 P. M., Polk county, Iowa, and on April 10, 1920, said acreage was duly platted under the name of “Fair-acres” into 64 lots, and the same is now included in and forms a part of the City of Des Moines, -Iowa. As thus platted, Fair-acres is bounded on the west by Beaver Avenue, on the south by…