Grant v. Hemphill
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Palo Alto District Court. — Hon. Lot Thomas, Judge This is a suit in equity, by which the plaintiffs claim title to, and possession of, certain land, and they demand that said title and possession be quieted as against the defendants. A writ of injunction was invoked and granted, by which the defendants were restrained from taking the possession of the land in dispute. The district court entered a decree dismissing the plaintiffs’ petition, and they appeal.
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Appeal from Palo Alto District Court. — Hon. Lot Thomas, Judge This is a suit in equity, by which the plaintiffs claim title to, and possession of, certain land, and they demand that said title and possession be quieted as against the defendants. A writ of injunction was invoked and granted, by which the defendants were restrained from taking the possession of the land in dispute. The district court entered a decree dismissing the plaintiffs’ petition, and they appeal. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company intervened in the action, claiming to be the owner of the land, as part of…
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
I. A number of motions were filed with the submission of the case. They are motions to strike out parts of appellees’ abstract, and to tax costs against appellees, and to strike an argument in reply, and a motion by appellees to strike the intervener’s argument from the files because not filed in time. These motions are all overruled. They are not well taken. The appellees’ abstract was not unnecessary, and, so far as it is an abstract of additional evidence, it is sustained by the transcript of the evidence. The' question is also presented, in argument, by appellees, that the record of the'…
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