McDonald v. McDonald
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Shelby District Court— Hon. II. E. Deemed, Judge. Action for the partition of real estate, and to set aside a mortgage. The relief asked was granted, and the defendant Bitzer appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, C. J.
— In 1881, Thomas McDonald died, ‘owning 560 acres of land, and forty acres thereof constituted his homestead at the time he deceased. He left surviving him four children, and the defendant Mary T. McDonald, his widow. The plaintiff, as one of said children, seeks to obtain partition of the real estate; and *138her two bro there, sister and mother are made defendants. The claim of the plaintiff is that she and the other children are each entitled to the undivided one-fourth of the real estate, subject to the ho mestead right of Mary T. McDonald, widow of said Thomas. The said Mary, since the…
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