Legal Opinion

State v. Schilb

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided March 20, 1878PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from Des Moines District Court. The defendant was indicted and convicted for obstructing a certain ancient and public highway, and now appeals to this court.

1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.

i. highway : width of: plat. The evidence tended to show that in 1858 a county road was duly established in Franklin township in the county °*' ^es Moines on the section line between sections 32 and 33; that a road was fenced along the section line, but so fenced, as appears from a recent survey, that the center of the road and travel were a few feet east of the section line; that the section line having been ascertained by survey the defendant moved his fence to within sixteen and a half feet of it to conform to the survey and under a claim that the road was only 33 feet wide. Eecords were…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Hershler v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1867
  2. State v. CrowSupreme Court of Iowa · 1870

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Town of Randall v. RovelstadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1900
  2. Baird v. JohnstonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1941
  3. Buch v. FlandersSupreme Court of Iowa · 1903
  4. State v. WatermanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1890
  5. State v. ChismoreSupreme Court of Iowa · 1918

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