Larkin v. McManus
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lee District Court. — Hon. J. M. Casey, Judge. Action at law for the recovery of real property. There was a trial by the court, and a judgment in favor of defendant. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
Plaintiff claims to own in fee simple lot 12, in block 164, in the city of Keokuk, and to be entitled to the immediate possession thereof. The title to the lot was acquired by William Larkin in the year 1870. He occupied the lot as a homestead at the time of his death, in December, 3877. He had been married three times, and left surviving him the plaintiff, who was his daughter by his first wife, his third wife, and a son by his third wife. The defendant was a daughter of his third wife by a former husband. Larkin died testate. His will was duly probated on 'the twelfth day of June, 1878, and…
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