Bartels v. Seefus

This is a suit brought by appellants for the partition of an 80-acre tract of land in Douglas county and for an accounting of the rents and 'profits of the property. Otto Timmermann, one of the appellees, answered and claimed that he had a life estate in the property for the reason that the property had been the homestead of his wife prior to her death, that the property was not subject to partition under the law, and asked the court that he be subrogated to the rights of a mortgagee of the property on a mortgage which he had paid off and on which the appellants and other owners of the…