Bolton v. Eggleston
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cerro Gordo District Court. The plaintiff brings this action to quiet title to a strip of ground one rod in width and eight rods in length, in the village of Clear Lake. The petition prays that the defendant be barred and estopped from having or claiming any title or interest in said ground, and that the plaintiff have general relief. The court entered a decree for the plaintiff. The de- • fendant appeals. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Day, Ch. J.
— I. There is no dispute whatever about the facts of this ease, which are as follows: One A. B. Allen owned lots 7 and 8, in Tuttle’s addition to the village of Clear Lake. He supposed that each of these lots was four *164rods wide, and that there was originally an alley one rod wide between them, which had been vacated. The defendant proposed to purchase lot 8, and went with Allen to see the property. Allen told her the lot was four rods wide, and in her presence he measured off four rods in width, and made a mark upon the fence as the corner of her lot. Upon the same day Allen…
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