Ward v. Incorporated Town of Clover Hills

— Plaintiffs, thirty-one resident owners of lots in Penrod Place, brought this suit in equity under section 362.32, Code, 1946, asking that it be severed from defendant, Incorporated Town of Clover Hills, a suburb of Des 'Moines. Defendant-town, organized in 1906, >vith a population in 1940 of 326, occupies the north half, except the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, of a certain section 10 in Polk county. However the northwest quarter section has not been platted into lots.

Penrod Place, including streets, is 325 feet wide east and west, a quarter mile long north and south and…