Schwenker v. Sagers

HARRIS, Justice.

This dispute concerns the extent of defendants’ right to use a 30 foot wide strip of farmland.' The trial court held defendants’ rights were limited to ingress and egress to their adjoining land. The trial court issued a writ of injunction restraining defendants from, among other things, using the strip for keeping, feeding and watering livestock. We reverse and remand.

In 1943 defendants purchased a 50 acre tract in Jackson County, Iowa adjacent to land they already owned. To previous owners the 50 acre tract had been “landlocked”; that is, it did not abut a public roadway.…