Steele v. Sanchez
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello Circuit Gourt. This is an action to recover the alleged contract price for a quantity of stone which the plaintiff alleges he sold the defendant. There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for the defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
I. It appears from the evidence in the case that the defendant is the owner of about one acre of land lying upon the Des Moines river at the city of Ottumwa. He became such owner in the year 1875. After the purchase was made, the water washed away some twenty feet of the bank of the river, so that the bed of the .stream was changed to that extent, and that part of the land originally purchased was covered with the current of the stream. In front of this land, and in the bed of the river below ordinary high-water mark, but within the meander line of the original survey of the lot of which the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Railroad Co. v. SchurmeirSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- McManus v. CarmichaelSupreme Court of Iowa · 1856
- Kraut v. CrawfordSupreme Court of Iowa · 1865
- Lockwood v. New York & New Haven RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1870
- Wood v. C., R. I. & P. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1883
3Cited by11 opinions
- State v. KorrerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- Wallace v. DriverSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1896
- Peuker v. CanterSupreme Court of Kansas · 1901
- Schlosser v. CruickshankSupreme Court of Iowa · 1895
- Hohl v. Iowa Central Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1913
6 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.