74 Iowa 127 | Iowa | 1888
In 1846, the county commissioners of Polk county duly laid out the town of Fort Des Moines, now the city of D es Moines, and caused to be recorded a plat thereof, upon which there is a parcel of land designated as “public grounds”, and the same was dedicated to the general public. The plat was duly acknowledged and recorded, and the streets and public grounds were declared to be public highways. Such grounds were bounded on the “ north by block 37; west by a line parallel with the east side of block 28 (in said town), extending to the Raccoon river; and east by the Des Moines river.” No streets were laid off across said grounds, but persons crossing Coon river, over which a bridge was erected, passed over said grounds in such direction as they pleased for many years ; and such persons, and all travelers on business or pleasure, could readily pass from said bridge across the grounds to
The judgment of the court is Affirmed,