HENRY WALKER PARK ASSOCIATION v. Mathews

The village of River Junction in Johnson County was platted in 1873, by Henry Walker and others. All of the land involved in the present controversy was then owned by Henry Walker. River Junction can hardly be said to have reached the status of a “ghost town”, since a ghost is defined as the disembodied spirit of a deceased person; necessarily someone who was once alive. There were, however, a few buildings, a post office, and until about 1936 a railroad station. The post office departed with the railroad station, and a Methodist church building, while still standing, seems now to have been…