Mapes v. Rose
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cherokee District Court. — O. C. Bradley, Judge. Suit for the partition of real property. The court below sustained a demurrer to plaintiffs’ petition, and entered a decree dismissing the same, and they appeal.—
1Opinion of the CourtStevens, J.
Defendant Nellie S. Rose is the surviving spouse of Washington J.' Tilton, who died testate, October 29, 1914. The plaintiffs and remaining defendants are his children, and legatees under the will. After providing for the payment of his funeral expenses, debts, etc., his will gives his widow the household goods, furniture, wearing apparel, and other similar property used in and about the home, absolutely, together with one third of the residue and remainder of his estate, real, personal, and tnixed. The controversy in this case grows out of the following provisions of the will: .
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