Platter v. City of Des Moines

On May 24, 1944, plaintiff and bis family lived on approximately one hundred acres of rented farm land located between the railroad tracks to the north and the Raccoon River to the south in the city of Des Moines. His residence address was 1304 Market Street. He had lived there about six years. For convenience we will refer to the prem ises as if they were bis. The land there lies in a bend of the river, which comes from the west and at about the Eighteenth Street bridge west of plaintiff’s premises makes a wide sweep south and then east. Plaintiff’s buildings and about seventy or…