Jones v. Peterson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Crawford District Court. — M. E. Hutchison, Judge. Action in equity to restrain the defendant, acting as road supervisor, from removing certain fences, and from trespassing upon the lands of the plaintiff. The trial court found for the defendant, and the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
1. Dedication: nature ancl requisites: essential elements : highways. The plaintiff owns the SW of Section 10, Township 82, Range 39, in Crawford County, and the defendant is supervisor of the road district in which the land is situated. By several acts or orders of the board of supervisors, at various dates before this dispute arose, public roads had been established on and around Section 10, substantially as shown on the following plat, from A to B, thence north' to C, east to D, and northeast to G-. Another line extends along the entire east side of the section, and another short line, or…
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