CITY OF MARQUETTE v. GAEDE

No. 02-1008.

672 N.W.2d 829 (2003)

CITY OF MARQUETTE, Iowa, Appellee, v. Steven A. GAEDE and Ruth Gaede, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 17, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale L. Putnam of Putnam Law Office, Decorah, for appellants.

James A. Garrett of Jacobson, Bristol, Garrett & Swartz, Waukon, for appellee.


CARTER, Justice.

Steven A. Gaede and Ruth Gaede, who claim ownership of a thirty-three-foot strip of land that the City of Marquette claims is a city street, appeal from a decree quieting title to the disputed strip in the city. The Gaedes urge that (1) the platted street that forms the basis for the city's claim never extended far enough east to coincide with the area in dispute, (2) the city's claim is barred by a forty-year chain of title in the Gaedes and their...

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