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· 11/23/1983

Ford v. Venard

Citations

  • 340 N.W.2d 270
  • 1983 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1733

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a mobile home is a fixture only if it is affixed to the land, used as realty and the party affixing the mobile home intended to create a permanent fixture
  • \[A] building which cannot be removed without destruction of a substantial part of its value becomes almost unavoidably an integral part of the real estate.\
  • \[A] building which cannot be removed without destruction of a substantial part of its value becomes almost unavoidably an integral part of the real estate.\
  • court applied common law rule on issue of when personal property becomes a fixture
  • court applied common law rule on issue of when personal property becomes a fixture
  • mobile home was a fixture where party making the accession \substantially modified\ it, and \[i]t could not be removed from its present location except in the sense that any permanent home could be\

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Judges: Reynoldson, Uhlenhopp, Harris, McCormick, McGiverin

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