78 Iowa 432 | Iowa | 1889
Plaintiff claims to be the owner of all of the south half of lot 118, in East Dubuque addition to the city of Dubuque, and that defendants wrongfully occupy and retain possession of a strip of land one hundred feet long and eighteen inches wide, constituting a part of said lot, and bounded on the south by the south boundary line thereof. Defendants are the widow and heirs of John Brown, who died intestate in the year 1878, and as such claim to own and occupy the north half of lot 119, which is south of and adjoining lot 118. In the year 1858 said Brown occupied the north half of lot 119, and built thereon and on the strip in controversy a dwelling house. Other improvements were afterwards