Clinton National Bank v. City of Camanche

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that claimants would suffer damage by use of disputed property as a city park because claimants had constructed a retaining wall on the contested real estate and had used the land as part of their front yard
• finding adequate possession of disputed shoreline property under a claim of right even though “a ‘few stragglers’ have fished from the bank and children occasionally played along the river”
• noting in property case, “a trial judge has inherent right to view premises for a 18 better understanding of the testimony, but must not consider his [or her] observations as evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).