ESTATE OF ROCKAFELLOW v. LIHS

No. 91-1692.

494 N.W.2d 734 (1992)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Stella ROCKAFELLOW, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Larry LIHS, Valleen Ziengenhorn, f/k/a Valeen Jackson, Defendants, and Hoover Nature Trail, Inc., And Any and All Persons Claiming Adversely to Certain Real Estate Situated in Sections 17 and 20 of Township 74, Range 3 West of the 5th P.M., Louisa County, Iowa, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

November 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven A. Sents of Newell & Sents Law Offices, Columbus Junction, for appellant.

John D. Rockafellow, San Diego, CA, and Roger M. Rockafellow, Clinton, executors for appellee.

Heard by DONIELSON, P.J., and HAYDEN and SACKETT, JJ.


HAYDEN, Judge.

Roger Rockafellow, as executor of the estate of Stella Rockafellow and successor in interest to the original grantor, brought this action to quiet title to a strip of railroad property located on his farmland. Rockafellow claims title pursuant to Iowa Code section 327G.76-.77 (1991) because the strip of land was a railroad right-of-way and has been abandoned. Rockafellow contends the original deed conveyed...

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