Coe College v. City of Cedar Rapids
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lynn District Court. — HoN. ,H. M. Rbmley, Judge. AotioN to quiet title to a strip of land in an addition to the city of Cedar Rapids. The defense interposed was that it had been dedicated as a street and accepted as such by the city. A portion of the plat is annexed. Surveyor’s notes were attached stating that certain named streets were continuations of the streets of the same name in the original plat of Cedar Rapids.
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Appeal from Lynn District Court. — HoN. ,H. M. Rbmley, Judge. AotioN to quiet title to a strip of land in an addition to the city of Cedar Rapids. The defense interposed was that it had been dedicated as a street and accepted as such by the city. A portion of the plat is annexed. Surveyor’s notes were attached stating that certain named streets were continuations of the streets of the same name in the original plat of Cedar Rapids. “Folk street has a set-by at Iowa (First) avenue of sixty feet, as shown on plat, and is eighty feet wide.” Some of the lots are sixty feet by one hundred and…
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
In 1871 the owners of a tract of land caused it to be surveyed, and map thereof made, acknowledged, and recorded. It was designated “Green and College Addition to Cedar Rapids.” Because of alleged defects in the title this dedication was ratified by plaintiff in 1880. That part of the map only which is essential to an understanding of the controversy is set out. The parcel of land in dispute lies between block fourteen and fractional block thirteen. The line crossing block thirteen is the section line, forming the south boundary of the proprietor’s land, that below belonging to one Calder,…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- City of Indianapolis v. KingsburyIndiana Supreme Court · 1884
- Milburn v. City of Cedar RapidsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1861
- Taraldson v. Incorporated Town of Lime SpringsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1894
- Porter v. . WaringNew York Court of Appeals · 1877
- Parsons v. ParsonsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1885
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