McAllister v. Pickup
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Bes Moines District Court. — HoN. C. H.. Phelps, Judge. Action in chancery for the abatement of a-, nuisance, caused by the obstruction of a roadway, and to enjoin the maintenance of the same. Partial relief was granted the plaintiff. Both parties appeal, the defendant first, and he is, therefore, designated as-the appellant.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, 0. J.
I. The petition shows that the plaintiff owns an eighty-acre subdivision of land which adjoins on the east a tract owned by Mrs. Walker. On the south of these tracts, and adjoining thereto, the *66defendant- owns lands, the quantity of which is not shown, further than that they abut upon the lands of the plaintiff and Mrs. "Walter. On the line dividing the defendant’s land, from the plaintiff’s and Mrs. Walker, a roadway twenty feet wide “was established, and recognized and acknowledged by all concerned,’"’ for more than forty years. The roadway approaches the plaintiff’s lands from…
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