9 Kan. 453 | Kan. | 1872
The opinion-of the court was delivered by
Defendant in error obtained áñ injunction-in the district court of Franklin county restraining the plaintiffs in error from selling the west half of block 85 in the-city of Ottawa, or any portion of it. The ground of the injunction was, á dedication' of the block to the use of the-public as a court-house square. The undisputed and material facts‘are these: About the 1st of September 1864 the Ottawa. Town'Company obtained title to the site of the present city'
“Sec. 6. Such maps and plats of such cities and towns, and additions, made, acknowledged, certified, filed, and recorded with the register, shall be a sufficient conveyance to vest the fee of such parcels of land as are therein expressed, named, or intended for public uses, in the county in which such city or town, or addition, is situate, in trust for the uses therein named, expressed, or intended, and for no other use nr purpose.”