Lutz v. Ristine & Ruml

The plaintiffs are husband, and wife, and were so at all the times in question. In November, 1889, Martin Lutz, father of plaintiff, George E. Lutz, died, testate, and his will was duly probated. Said Martin Lutz died seised of an eighty-acre farm, situated in Linn county, ■ and this he bequeathed to his said son, one forty thereof known in the record as the front forty, in fee, and the other forty, known as the rear forty, a life estate. At the time, the building improvements were all on the front forty, and plaintiffs entered into possession, and thereafter down to the year 1897 made the…