Keeline v. Clark
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court.— Hon. A. B. Tiiornell, Judge Action in equity to quiet title in plaintiff to certain real estate situate in the city of Council Bluffs.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court.— Hon. A. B. Tiiornell, Judge Action in equity to quiet title in plaintiff to certain real estate situate in the city of Council Bluffs. In a second count to the petition plaintiff claims that a deed purporting to convey the legal title.to the property in question to defendant Clark, and under which he (Clark) claims title, was obtained from her by fraud and by force and duress, and, further, that such deed was accepted and title thereunder taken and is now held by said Clark only by way .of security for moneys loaned'to her husband, W. C. Keeline. The…
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
Up to September 24, 1901, the legal title to the real estate in question stood in the name of plaintiff, and for many years the property had been occupied by plaintiff, her husband, and their children as a homestead. On said date there was executed and delivered by plaintiff and her husband, W. O. Keeline, a conveyance of said premises, in form a warranty deed, to defendant Clark, subject, however, to' three mortgages .to E. E. Hart, aggregating $2,-*362201.50, which mortgages, as provided in the deed, were assumed and agreed to be paid by Clark. Contemporaneous with said deed plaintiff and…
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