Tuntland v. Haugen

A decree of the circuit court of DeKalb County ordered partition of a parcel of real estate among Bertha, Amos, Thomas T. and Ray Tuntland and Melaie Haugen. The three last named prosecute this appeal, a freehold being necessarily involved.

Thomas J. Tuntland died intestate on February 6, 1936, leaving as his heirs-at-law his wife, Ellen, then seventy-four years of age, and their six children, Bertha, Amos, Ray, Thomas T. and John Tuntland, and Melaie Haugen. Tuntland owned a farm of eighty acres in DeKalb County and, upon his death, his wife, Ellen, became the owner of an undivided one-third…