Burch v. Nicholson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Calhoun District Court. — Hon. F. M. Powers, Judge. Action to quiet title in plaintiff to an undivided interest as tenant in common in a quarter section of land, title to which was at one time in Allen Murphy, plaintiff’s grandfather, of whose estate plaintiff claims that she is joint heir with the defendants, and asking partition.
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Appeal from Calhoun District Court. — Hon. F. M. Powers, Judge. Action to quiet title in plaintiff to an undivided interest as tenant in common in a quarter section of land, title to which was at one time in Allen Murphy, plaintiff’s grandfather, of whose estate plaintiff claims that she is joint heir with the defendants, and asking partition. By cross-petition all the defendants save Joshua Murphy ask the same relief as to their joint undivided interests as heirs of Allen Murphy. The guardian of Joshua Murphy, insane, asks that the title of the property be quieted in him exclusively as…
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, C. J.
— In 1886 Allen Murphy died intestate, seised of the land in controversy, and leaving surviving him his widow, Deby Ann Murphy, six living children, and two grandchildren, the daughters' of a deceased daughter; the grandchildren being at that time minors; One of the ■ granddaughters, subsequently married, is the plaintiff in this action, and all the other heirs are defendants, Later in the same year all the children except Joshua *505joined in a deed to their mother, Deby Ann Murphy, quit-claiming their interests to her in consideration of the sum of $1 to each in hand paid. A guardian having…
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