DOTSON v. CITY OF AMES

No. 49902.

101 N.W.2d 711 (1960)

R. A. DOTSON, Appellant, v. CITY OF AMES, a municipal corporation; Pearle P. Dehart, as Mayor thereof; W. Bernard King, J. C. Schilletter, Conrad Lawlor, J. D. Armstrong, Edward Judge and Stewart Smith, as Councilmen thereof; L. E. Rosebrook, as Health Officer thereof; each of the above-named individuals as the Board of Health of the said City of Ames: John Carpenter, as City Manager thereof; and Austin T. Getz, as Sanitarian thereof, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Buchanan, Ames, for appellant.

Rex B. Gilchrist, City Atty., Ames, for appellees.


THOMPSON, Justice.

At all times material the plaintiff was the owner of 48.65 acres of land lying immediately west of, and outside, the city limits of the defendant city; and of 28.20 acres immediately adjoining to the east, and so within the city limits. In the southeast corner of the latter tract, inside but immediately adjacent to the south corporation line of the city, the plaintiff had a fenced enclosure, .625 acres in extent, in which he kept two horses. This...

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