Ahrens v. Ahrens
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clinton District Court. — Hon. A. P. Barker, Judge. This is an action for partition. There was a demurrer to the petition, which challenged the alleged title of the plaintiffs. The demurrer being sustained, and -the plaintiffs refusing to plead further, the petition was dismissed, and they have appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, C. J.
Although in form this is an action for partition, in its real effect, it is an action to try the title of the plaintiffs to an undivided interest in certain land in Clinton County. The common source of title under which both parties claim was Bernard Ahrens, who died intestate December 18, 1860, seised of the undivided half of a quarter section of land; his brother, J. D. Ahrens, being seised of the other undivided half thereof. . Bernard left neither widow nor children. His mother, Trinke Ahrens, was his only surviving parent. He left surviving him two brothers and two sisters, the only…
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