County of Worth v. Jorgenson

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

We have here to decide by de novo review whether the grantor in a deed established as a factual matter the acceptance of the deed by the grantee. Wetzstein v. Dehrkoop, 241 Iowa 1237, 44 N.W.2d 695; Frederick v. Shorman, 259 Iowa 1050, 147 N.W.2d 478. The grantor argues several reasons for sustaining the trial court’s decree upholding the conveyance, but we are satisfied from examination of the record that the grantor predicated its case on its deed to the grantee and that the crux of the case is whether the grantee accepted the deed. The case has the unusual twist that…