Brown v. Honeyfield
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Floyd District Court.— Host. J. F. Clyde, Judge. Suit in equity asking a decree establishing an easement over the defendant’s land,, and praying that he be restrained from filling a drainage ditch. There was a decree for the plaintiffs. The defendant appeals.—
1Opinion of the Court
SheewiN, J.—
The plaintiffs, G. W. Brown and Isabella Fitkin, are the owners of separate pieces of land lying north and west of the appellant’s land. The plaintiff, George B. Haughey, is a tenant occupying land west of the Brown and Fitkin land. B. B. Stewart is the owner of land directly south of the Fitkin land and west of the appellant’s land. About 1860 a ditch was dug from Brown’s west forty southeasterly through the Fitkin land, thence across the east and west highway between that land and the Stewart land, then through the Stewart land to and across the township line road onto the…
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