In Re Estate of McDowell

By objections to the final report of the administrator of the estate of Guy McDowell, a claimant in said estate, Robert Exferd, sought to have certain real estate owned by the decedent declared nonexempt. The record is not very clear, since the so-called “stipulation” is largely composed of claims and contentions of counsel, but the answer to a single legal question will probably dispose of all the questions in the ease.

The decedent, at the time of his death, was the contract owner of a house situated upon a tract of one and three-fourths acres in the eity of Des Moines. He lived in the house…