Lucas v. Payne
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Boone District Gourt. — Hon. C. G. Lee, Judge. Action in equity to have a strip of ground about a half mile long and two rods wide declared to be a legally established highway, and to require the defendants to remove fences therefrom. There was a judgment for the defendants, from which the plaintiffs appeal. —
1Opinion of the Court
Sherwin, J.- —
The appellants are heirs -of Hiram Lucas, deceased, and as such are the owners of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 10, township 83, range 26, in Boone County, Iowa. The appellees are the owners of the land on both sides of the section line between sections 3 and 10, and 2 and 11. There is a public highway, known as the “State road,” or “Dodge road,” running north and south through the southwest of the southwest of 2 and the northwest of the northwest of 11, and the strip of land which it is claimed is a highway extends from this State road west along the…
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