Keokuk Investment Co. v. Doerhoff

Plaintiff-appellant, Keokuk Investment Co., sought a mandatory injunction to remove a portion of defendant’s building which encroached some four feet six inches onto plaintiff’s land. Defendant-respondent Mrs. Ethel W. Doerhoff, counterclaimed and asserted that a five-foot strip of land, the length of her property — on part of which was located her building — was acquired by adverse possession.

After a trial before the court, the court denied the injunction to require the defendant to remove a portion of her two-story building which encroaches upon the plaintiff’s property because it would be…