Jacobs v. Miller

This is an action to quiet title to a portion of an abandoned railroad right of way in Maquoketa. Plaintiffs claim title by virtue of reversionary clauses in the deeds given to the railroads and defendants claim as abutting owners and in a separate division ask Adams Street and Third Street as platted be declared to be established as.public streets in Maquoketa. The trial court quieted title in plaintiffs and defendants appeal.

It is our duty to review the case de novo. Rule 334, Rules of Civil Procedure; Rand v. Miller, 250 Iowa 699, 95 N.W.2d 916; and Snater v. Walters, 250 Iowa 1189, 98…