Arthur v. Wright County
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wright District Court. — G. D. Thompson, Judge. Suit in equity, to enjoin certain public officials of Wright County from opening an alleged highway through the farm of the plaintiff. There was a decree for the plaintiff for a part of the relief prayed for, and the defendants have appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, C. J.
Certain of the defendants notified plaintiff to open the alleged highway through her farm, said highway purporting to have been located along the section line north and south between Sections 21 and 22. The demand of the defendants was predicated upon the claim that a legal highway was established along said line in 1871. The plaintiff pleaded that no highway was ever legally established along such section line, and pleaded further that, if a highway ever had been legally established along such line, it had long ago been abandoned by the county, and that the plaintiff and her grantors had…
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