Hassenclever v. Romkey

In the year 1857 one Bobert Avery, owning a tract of land in Union township, Des Moines county, Iowa, dedicated a portion thereof to the public for use as a cemetery, and evidenced such fact by making and recording a deed of the land so designated to Union township. Since that date the deeded tract has been used as a cemetery. It was never platted into lots or blocks, nor have any distinct parts or parcels thereof ever been sold or conveyed to persons who have buried their dead therein. ■ The custom usually observed has been for each person desiring to do so to select a spot or place not…