158 Iowa 402 | Iowa | 1913
Plaintiffs claim to have occupied up to a certain line between their lots and the street for many years; that this is the true line originally run in marking out Springer’s addition upon the ground; that they have title by reason of adverse possession; and that, in any event, defendants are estopped from claiming that the line which they now insist upon as the true one is not the one originally established, because with the knowledge of the town and its officials they have laid sidewalks, built fences, improved their properties, and located their houses with reference to the line claimed by them to be the true one, and that, if the city is now permitted
Buildings and fences were erected upon the lots many years ago, one house as early as 1851, and another fourteen- or fifteen years before the trial, and the porches to which we