Nichols v. Kirchner

— This is a dispute over the boundary line at the rear of plaintiff's vacant lot in Fort Dodge. Bach party claims ownership of a strip 14 by 62% feet, the width of the lot. We infer the area in question is near one end of the business district of the city.

In 1878 one Brockschink, then owner, made a deed to Oliver Nichols of property therein described substantially as: West % of Lot 2, Block 18, Morrison and Duncombe’s Addition to Fort Dodge, otherwise described as commencing at the northwest corner of said Lot 2, thence south 140 feet, thence east 62% feet, thence north 140 feet, thence west…