Bond v. Mikel

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This was an action to quiet the title to an eighty-acre tract of land in Jewell county. Albert Appleton and Sophia Appleton lived together as man and wife, and occupied the land in question with an adjoining eighty-acre tract, and separated about two weeks before the making of a postnuptial contract, since which time they have not lived together and were never divorced. He died in the month of February, 1929, and the plaintiffs, Charles A. Bond and Peter Mikel, were the children of his deceased sister and his only heirs, unless his…