Des Moines Independent School District v. McClure
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Davis District Gov,rt. — Hon. Frank "W. Eichelberger, Judge. Action in equity.to enjoin defendant from interfering with plaintiff’s possession and use of one acre of land, and to establish plaintiff’s title and rights thereto. By cross-petition, defendant claimed to be the owner of the land and asked that his title be quieted. There was a decree for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
1. Estoppel : sovereign state: application of doctrine against: facts not justifying: grantee of state. The petition alleges that plaintiff is a school corporation and as such it has owned for over thirty years the grounds located as follows -. One acre square out of the southeast corner of the N. E. % of S. E. *4 of Sec. 10, Tp. 70, R. 12, in Davis County, Iowa, and during all said time has maintained thereon a schoolhouse for the purpose of conducting a public school, and has erected and maintained other outbuildings, and has dug and maintained a well on said premises; that during all said…
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