Clarity v. Sheridan
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Allamahee District Court. — Hon. W. A. Hoyt, Judge. Plaintiees and defendants are the only heirs at law of their brother James Sheridan, who died, intestate, April 27, 1891. Plaintiffs alleged that James Sheridan died seized of the following described real estate: The west half of the northeast quarter, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and the south half of the northwest quarter, and the north sixty acres of the southwest quarter, all in…
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Appeal from Allamahee District Court. — Hon. W. A. Hoyt, Judge. Plaintiees and defendants are the only heirs at law of their brother James Sheridan, who died, intestate, April 27, 1891. Plaintiffs alleged that James Sheridan died seized of the following described real estate: The west half of the northeast quarter, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and the south half of the northwest quarter, and the north sixty acres of the southwest quarter, all in section 4, township 96 north, of range 6 west, fifth principal meridian, containing two hundred and forty acres. Also, the…
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
I. Though denied in the answer, there is no dispute in the evidence but that appellant did sign and acknowledge said deed to James Sheridan for all the lands described in the petition, except said forty acres in section 33. We first inquire whether said deed is without consideration.
*3071 *3082 *306The following facts appear without question, or are fairly established by the evidence. Michael Sheridan came to Allamakee county in 1856, and James in 1857. Each had a small sum of money, Michael having from three hundred dollars to five hundred dollars, and James one hundred dollars or more. The forty acres in…
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