McDonnell v. Sheets

Mulroney, J.—

Plaintiffs brought suit in equity for a decree establishing their rights to the continued use of an easement across defendants’ land in Salix, Iowa. Defendants denied that their land was burdened with the easement. The evidence showed that both tracts of land were formerly owned by A. R. Fortin. On February 6, 1913, A. R. Fortin and his wife conveyed a tract one hundred eighty-three feet by fifty feet to plaintiffs’ mother, Abigail McDonnell, which left Fortin owning land on the north, west, and south of the tract conveyed. There was a highway along the east side of both tracts.…