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HENRY WALKER PARK ASSOCIATION v. MATHEWS

No. 49469.

91 N.W.2d 703 (1958)

HENRY WALKER PARK ASSOCIATION, a Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, Fremont Township, Johnson County, Iowa, and Fay Musser, Frank Sherburne, and Alton Wolford, Trustees of Fremont Township, Johnson County, Iowa, Intervenors-Appellees, v. Effie Shellady MATHEWS, Gilbert E. Mathews, and Marsh E. Mathews, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 28, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Wellons, Muscatine, and F. J. MacLaughlin, Davenport, for defendants-appellants.

Edward L. O'Connor, Iowa City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Edward F. Rate, Iowa City, for intervenors-appellees.

THOMPSON, Justice.

The village of River Junction in Johnson County was platted in 1873, by Henry Walker and others. All of the land involved in the present controversy was then owned by Henry Walker. River Junction can hardly be said to have reached the status of a "ghost town", since a ghost is defined as the disembodied spirit of a deceased person; necessarily someone who was once alive. There were, however, a few buildings...

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