Hodge v. Shaw
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jackson District Court. — Hon. A. Howat,, Judge. Action in equity to enjoin the defendants from interfering with the plaintiff’s right in a certain alley, and with his use of the same. Answer in denial of the plaintiff’s right, and pleading a former adjudication. Judgment was rendered dismissing the plaintiff’s- petition, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtKinne, J.
The evidence in this case discloses the following facts: Sophia Shaw, the ancestor of the appellees, on April 17, 1873, conveyed to the plaintiff a lot twenty-three feet front by eighty feet deep in the city of Maquolreta. At the same time, she entered into-a written agreement with the plaintiff, granting him the free use for the purpose of a private alley, of a strip-of land seven feet in width from east to west by twenty-three feet in length from north to south, and lying-west of and adjoining the lot sold him; said land to be used in connection with five feet of his own lot. This-alley…
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