Burkhardt v. Burkhardt
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Benton District Court. — Hon. G-. W. Burn-ham, Judge. Action in equity to have decreed and quieted in the plaintiff the title to certain real estate. There was a hearing on the merits, the relief demanded was denied, and judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant for costs. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Bobinson, O. J.
The plaintiff and the defendant are husband and wife, and were married to each other in August, 1873. They made their home in a small house built on a tract of about three and one-quarter acres of land, now within the city of Belle Plaine. The mother of the defendant, Sibilla Bichart,- owned the premises, and resided with the plaintiff and his family, until her death, which occurred in 1888. On the eleventh day of May, 1886, Mrs. Bichart executed to the defendant a warranty deed for the premises designated, and on the same day the defendant and the plaintiff, as parties of the…
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