Goldsmith v. Petersen

Zachariah H. Goldsmith died in 1854 testate and seised of lot 8 in block 8 in the city of Davenport, and other property. A widow and two children, John M. and Mary Mildred Goldsmith, survived him. His will was admitted to probate, and in 1866, in an action to which all named devisees were made parties, John M. and Mary Mildred Goldsmith, as plaintiffs, procured the entry of a decree so construing the will as that it gave them absolute title to the abovemamed lot and other property, and in June, 1873, John M. Goldsinith and his wife Mary I., one of the plaintiffs, conveyed an undivided half of…