Knowles v. Brown
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Blade Hawle Circuit Court. Action to quiet title to eighty acres of land in Black Hawk county. It is undisputed that the plaintiff owns an undivided three-fourths of the land. The defendant, Brown, claims the ownership of an undivided fourth.
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Appeal from Blade Hawle Circuit Court. Action to quiet title to eighty acres of land in Black Hawk county. It is undisputed that the plaintiff owns an undivided three-fourths of the land. The defendant, Brown, claims the ownership of an undivided fourth. The legal title to one-fourth appears to be in Brown; but the plaintiff,' Sarah A. Knowles, and her husband, Geoi’ge A. Knowles, now deceased, under whom she claims, appear to have been in possession for more than twenty years, and the plaintiff avers that they have been in possession under claim of entire ownership, and under such…
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Cu. J.
Much oral evidence was introduced, against the objection of the defendant, for the purpose of showing that the defendant did not acquire by his deed any beneficial interest in the land, but that the beneficial owner was, until his death, the plaintiff’s husband, George A. Knowles. . The objection urged to the evidence was that for the purpose mentioned it was inadmissible under the statute of frauds. Whether the objection was well taken we need not determine. If we should concede that it was, and that the defendant’s legal title must, under the evidence, be regarded as having…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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