Van Ormer v. Harley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Ida District Court. — Hon. Z. A. Church, Judge. Action in equity for the partition of real estate and for an accounting. There was hearing on the merits, and. a decree for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals. — Modified and Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
— In the year 1863, Amos Van Ormer, a resident of the state of Pennsylvania, died intestate, seized in fee simple of a tract of one hundred and twenty acres of land in Ida county, in this state. Ho had survived his wife, and his only heirs were his children, who were the plaintiff, and four daughters, named Hannah, Jane, Lucinda, and Mary. In April of the year 1875, Jane, Lucinda, and Mary, then married, and their husbands, executed to Jacob Feghtly, a resident of the state of Illinois, a warranty deed, which purported to convey to him “the undivided three-fourths” of the land in question. In…
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