Brake v. Central Service Co.

This is a companion case to Gabrielson v. Central Service Co., 232 Iowa 483, 5 N. W. 2d 834. In the ease at bar each property consists of a house and one or two lots in the platted subdivision known as Olmstead Place. Each count of the petition contains a recital of ownership and legal description of one property, an allegation of injury thereto, the amount thereof, and a prayer for recovery therefor. In each count the allegations of the cause of the injury are the same. The answer is in eleven identical counts, each directed to a corresponding count of the petition.

Section 10961, Code of…