Bader v. Dyer
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clinton District Court. — How. P. B. Wolee, Judge. Action in equity for the partition of real estate. There was a hearing on the merits, and a decree for the plaintiffs. The defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBobinson, J.
On the twenty-ninth day of May, 1855, John H. Armitage and MarthaArmitage executed to Augustus L. Dyer and Elizabeth M. Dyer a warranty deed which purported to convey to the grantees a tract of 160 acres of land, in Clinton county, for the consideration of one thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. During the same year a small house was built upon the land, and the grantees, who were husband and wife, moved upon it, and made it their home until December, 1864, when the wife died intestate and without issue. The husband lived upon the land about twenty years after the death of his wife, and…
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