Johnson v. City of Shenandoah
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Shenandoah Superior Gourt. — Hon. W. P. Ferguson, Judge. Suit in equity to enjoin the defendants from changing the location and boundaries of a certain alley in the defendant city.
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Appeal from Shenandoah Superior Gourt. — Hon. W. P. Ferguson, Judge. Suit in equity to enjoin the defendants from changing the location and boundaries of a certain alley in the defendant city. Plaintiff claims that the alley should remain where it is, no matter whether according to the plat or not, because of acquiescence in the location and boundaries thereof, of adverse possession of that part which is on defendants’ lots by the city, and by the plaintiff of that part of the alley which it is now claimed belongs to the city, and for the further reason that all the defendants are es-topped…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
There is not much dispute as to the facts, and the case turns upon the inferences to be drawn therefrom and the law applicable thereto. Plaintiff and *495defendants Perldns are the owners of lots in a block in wbat is known as Crippen’s addition to the defendant city; plaintiff owning lot 153, which faces north on University avenue, and, according to the plat, is fifty feet wide and one hundred and twenty-five feet long, and defendants owning lots 154, 155 and 156, in the same block, which lots face the west, are each one hundred and thirty-two feet in length according to the plat, and forty-one…
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