Jordan v. Ferree
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Hon. F. W. Eiohelberg-er, Judge. The plaintiff commenced an action at law to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the defendants, J. D. Ferree and T. E. Muir, in so grading a lot as to injure an adjoining one owned by her. That action was consolidated with one brought by Ferree to enjoin her from enclosing, as her own, a strip of ground lying on the boundary line of the two lots.
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Appeal from Wapello District Court. — Hon. F. W. Eiohelberg-er, Judge. The plaintiff commenced an action at law to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the defendants, J. D. Ferree and T. E. Muir, in so grading a lot as to injure an adjoining one owned by her. That action was consolidated with one brought by Ferree to enjoin her from enclosing, as her own, a strip of ground lying on the boundary line of the two lots. Thereafter, all the issues relating to that strip of ground were transferred to the equity docket for hearing, and the trial of the remaining issues was continued.…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
I. The plaintiff is the owner of lot numbered 1, of Godfrey’s sub-division of the- west one-half of outlot numbered 29, in the city of Ottumwa, and the defendant, Ferree, owns lot numbered 2, of the same sub-division. In the year 1846, a portion of the west one-half of the southwest one-fourth of section 19, in township 72 N., of range 13 W., was platted into outlots among which were outlots' numbered 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30. In the year 1869, George Godfrey, in whom the title to the west part of outlot 29 was then vested, sub-divided it into two equal parts, of which the north part was…
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