CALAMUS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST. v. RUSCH

No. 64388.

299 N.W.2d 489 (1980)

CALAMUS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN CLINTON COUNTY, Iowa, Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. Glenn RUSCH and Jean Rusch, Husband and wife, Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matt K. Wolfe, Clinton, for appellants, cross-appellees.

Wayne Newport of Newport & Buzzell, Davenport, for appellee, cross-appellant.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and HARRIS, McCORMICK, ALLBEE and LARSON, JJ.


HARRIS, Justice.

This quiet title action arose from a dispute over the ownership of the site of an abandoned schoolhouse. Plaintiff is the school. Defendants are owners of the abutting land from which the site was taken. The trial court held for the school and we agree.

Defendants negotiated for the property after it was abandoned for school purposes in 1966 and in 1967 paid $200 down on its purchase. A dispute then developed on the total purchase price. The...

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