Bissell v. Bissell
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Madison District Court. — HoN. A. W. Wile-INSON, Judge. Suit in equity for the partition of certain real estate theretofore owned by one W. G. Bissell, deceased. From the decree rendered by the trial court, both parties appeal; but as plaintiff first perfected her appeal, she will be called the “appellant.”
1Opinion of the CourtDebmer, J.
W. G. Bissell died intestate in September of the year 1900 seised of six hundred acres of land. This land was incumbered by mortgage in the sum of $11,000. *128He left as bis widow Myrtle Bissell, plaintiff herein, who resides upon a part of the land, defendant Yerdie May Bissell, a daughter, and Edna Bissell, a daughter by a former marriage to one Elmira Bissell, from whom he was divorced in the year 1897. At the time of the institution of this suit in the year 1901, Verdie May Bissell was about one year old, and defendant Edna about ten. In April of the year 18Q7, Elmira, the first wife of W.…
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