Cooper v. Brown

More than twenty years ago Susan Brown and her son, N. E. Brown, each being part owner of a milldam and water power at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in which property the present plaintiffs also owned fractional interests, -commenced an action in equity for partition thereof. On August 27, 1889, an interlocutory decree was entered fixing their respective shares. These shares, so far as the present controversy is concerned, may be stated to have been as follows: Susan Brown, fifty-seven sixty-fourths; N. E. Brown, two sixty-fourths; W. S. Cooper, four sixty-fourths; and the Anchor Mill Company, one…