Elstermeyer v. City of Cheyenne

Riner, Chief Justice.

This is a direct appeal proceeding brought by the City of Cheyenne, a municipal corporation, and Edwin W. Baron, to review a judgment of the district court of Laramie County given in a cause pending in said court wherein Ida Elstermeyer was plaintiff and the parties above, named were defendants. The facts required to be set forth in order to understand the matter may be briefly summarized as follows: The plaintiff, whose name at that time was Ida Anderson, purchased Lot 8 in Block 303 of the City of Cheyenne some 38 years before August 8, 1940, the date when the case at…