Gerdts v. Mulford

The residence properties are Lots 5 and 6 in Whitaker’s 2d Addition to the City of Davenport, Iowa. They front west on Belle Avenue, and extend east 192 feet to a 30-foot alley. Each is 50 feet wide. Plaintiffs own Lot 5 which is immediately to the north of defendant’s Lot 6. Adam Boettcher bought'Lot 5 in 1892, built upon it and occupied it until his death in 1912. His surviving family occupied the place until the Boettcher heirs sold it in 1922 to the plaintiff, Walter O. Gerdts, a grandson of Adam Boettcher.

The defendant and her husband bought Lot 6 in 1895 and built upon it in December…