Sullivan v. Sullivan

Plaintiff, sixty-one, and defendant, sixty-four, were married in 1911, and shortly after they moved from a farm in Johnson County onto a farm in Cedar County, Iowa, belonging to defendant’s father, which they operated for about twenty years and on which their seven children, one of whom is deceased, were born. Defendant inherited the farm but lost it by mortgage foreclosure. They lived in West Liberty for five years, where defendant worked in a sale barn. In 1935 they moved to Iowa City where he did janitor work at the University Quadrangle, and thereafter was employed in various laundries.…