Legal Opinion

Brown v. Brown

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided October 19, 1904PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from Wayne District Court.— Hon. H. M. Towner, Judge. Suit in equity to quiet plaintiffs’ title to certain real estate in Wayne county. Defendants’ demurrer to the petition was sustained, and plaintiffs appeal.—

1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, C. J.

Plaintiffs and the defendants are the children and heirs at law of one Angelina Brown, who died testate in November of the year 1902. By/the terms of her will she devised her real estate to the plaintiffs, and gave to the defendants each a small legacy, as and for their full share of her estate. Plaintiffs contend that at the time of testatrix’s decease she was the owner in fee of the real estate in question, in virtue of a deed therefor from her mother, Sarah Ann Campbell, of date September 23, 1886, the material parts of which read as follows: ,

I, Sarah Ann Campbell, widow of Morton,…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Rogers v. RogersCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1829
  2. Bodine's Adm'rs v. ArthurCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1890
  3. Guthrie's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1861
  4. May v. RitchieSupreme Court of Alabama · 1880
  5. Cannon v. BarryMississippi Supreme Court · 1881

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Westcott v. MeekerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1909
  2. Doyle v. AndisSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
  3. Kepler v. LarsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1906
  4. Blair v. KenastonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1937
  5. Harlan v. ManingtonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1911

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