Johnson v. Robertson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, PoTk District Court. — Hon. Lawrence De Grate, Judge.. Suit in 'equity to enjoin defendant Robertson from erecting a building or in any way interfering wit'b the free use of a four-foot strip of ground along the north side of a certain lot abutting upon Walnut street in the city of Des Moines. The city of Des Moines and the Johnson &; Miller Company intervened in the suit, each making some claim to the strip of ground.
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Appeal from, PoTk District Court. — Hon. Lawrence De Grate, Judge.. Suit in 'equity to enjoin defendant Robertson from erecting a building or in any way interfering wit'b the free use of a four-foot strip of ground along the north side of a certain lot abutting upon Walnut street in the city of Des Moines. The city of Des Moines and the Johnson &; Miller Company intervened in the suit, each making some claim to the strip of ground. Upon issues joined, the case was tried to the court, resulting' in a decree dismissing plaintiff’s petition and the cross-petitions of the interveners and…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Walnut street in the city of Des Moines is one of the main business thoroughfares of the city. It runs west from the river and, as originally platted from the river to Fifth street, was eighty feet wide, and from Fifth street west was but sixty feet in width. F. M. Hubbell was a large owner of . real estate on the south side of Walnut street between Fifth and Eighth streets, and at an early day proposed to the other abutting property owners on this street that the sidewalk be broadened from Fifth to Eighth street without changing the curb line. He took the matter up with one Clapp and other…
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