Corey v. City of Fort Dodge
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster District Court. — Hon. J. R. Whitaker, Judge. Action in equity to restrain the defendant city from opening and improving a street upon land claimed by the plaintiff. The relief asked was denied by the district eourt, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
The plaintiff is owner of a tract of land in the Northwest corner of block seventeen in Morrison & Duncombe’s addition to the city of Ft. Dodge, and the litigation in this case arises over the location of the boundary between said block and the adjacent street on the north, known as “Second Avenue South” or “Walnut Street.” The Morrison & Duncombe addition was platted in the year 1856. ' It embraced an eighty-acre tract according to government survey, and was supposed to measure 2,640 feet in length, north and south. If, however, we turn to the plat as recorded, and aggregate the mea'sures of…
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