Hornbeck v. Brown & Nichols
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hardin District Court. — Hon. S. M. Weaver, Judge. Action in equity to enjoin the sale of real estate. An answer to the petition was filed, a demurrer thereto was sustained, and, the defendants refusing to plead further, a decree was rendered in favor of the plaintiff. The defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The petition alleges that the wife of plaintiff died in December, 1889, seized in fee simple of a homestead of two lots in the town of Iowa Falls; that the homestead was acquired about the year 1877, and was continuously occupied as a homestead by the decedent from the time it was acquired until her death; that the defendants Brown & Nichols are copartners under that name; that in May, 1891, they recovered a judgment in the district court of Hardin county against the plaintiff for the sum of two hundred dollars and costs; that the debt upon which the judgment was rendered was not contracted…
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