Bell v. City of Burlington
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Des Moines Circuit Coxirt. Plaintiff owns certain lots in Barret’s addition to the city of Burlington, which are situated on the west side of Madison street, and abut on that street.
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Appeal from Des Moines Circuit Coxirt. Plaintiff owns certain lots in Barret’s addition to the city of Burlington, which are situated on the west side of Madison street, and abut on that street. A controversy arose between the city and plaintiff and certain other owners of property on that side of the street as to the location of the boundary line between the street and the abutting lots, the city claiming that the fences maintained by the property owners on the fronts of their property were situated thirty feet east of said line, and inclosed a strip of ground of that width which belonged to…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
Barret’s addition was laid out and platted in 1844, and the plat was duly recorded. A strip of ground sixty feet wide on the eastern boundary of the addition was designated on the plat as a street, and was dedicated to public use as such. The proprietor of an addition adjoining Barret’s addition on the east also dedicated for street purposes a strip of ground thirty feet wide adjoining this street on the east. These two strips of ground constitute the street now known as Madison street. The property now owned by plaintiff was inclosed in 1852. The fence on the east of the property was built…
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