Independent School District No. 3 v. Gunn
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Cedar District Court. — Hon. J. H. Preston, Judge. This suit involves the title to a school house site, of which each of the parties claims to be the owner. There was a decree for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
This action is in equity to quiet the title-of the plaintiff to the premises in dispute. - The *45land from which the school house site was taken is situated in the northwest corner of a section, and consisted of a lot four rods by ten. That and other lands adjoining were formerly owned by Susanna P. Parsons. In the year 1876 she entered into a contract by which she sold the school house lot to the plaintiff, and possession was then taken, and the purchase money paid. No conveyance of the title has at any time been executed, but the plaintiff was in actual, open, notorious, adverse possession of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Camp v. McGillicuddySupreme Court of Iowa · 1859