141 Iowa 99 | Iowa | 1909
Bor more- than thirty years prior to August 8, 1902, O. J. Ooddington was owner of the west forty feet of the south ninety feet of lot 6 in block 17 of East Ft. Des Moines. About that long ago he erected a two-story brick building on the west twenty feet, as he supposed, extending back sixty-three feet with but a brick
The principle is of universal approval that where the vendor points out the boundary of a parcel of land to the vendee, and the latter purchases and erects valuable improvements in accordance with such boundary and in reliance thereon, in a manner such that a change of boundary would result in great injury to the vendee, the vendor and those claiming under him are estopped from insisting that the division line is elsewhere. Ross v. Ferree, 95 Iowa, 604; Dolde v. Vodicka, 49 Mo. 98; Ross v. Connell, 7 Kulp (Pa.) 113; Titus v. Morse, 40 Me. 348 (63
The conclusion reached renders the discussion of other questions argued unnecessary. — Reversed.