Fairchild v. Stewart
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Johnson District Court. — Hon. M. J. Wade, Judge. Action in equity to restrain the defendant from closing a road leading to the plaintiff’s premises. Judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appeals.—
1Opinion of the Court
Sherwin, J. —
1 The plaintiff is the owner of a tract of land lying some distance northeast of the highway running west to North Liberty. The defendant owns property abutting this North Liberty road. There is no regularly laid out highway to the plaintiff’s land, but since the early settlement of that locality there has been a track or road from the North Liberty road, across the defendant’s land, down to and over the plaintiff’s land, and on to the Iowa river, which the plaintiff claims has become a public highway by prescription and dedication. Neither of these contentions can be sustained.…
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