Eliason v. Stephens

On the 21st day of August, 1931, plaintiffs-appellants filed their petition in the district court of Muscatine county, Iowa, and later an amendment thereto, alleging substantially as follows: That one Lewis Eliason died intestate during the year 1928, seized of certain real property situated in the county of Muscatine and state of Iowa; that the described real estate was subject to a mortgage incumbrance in the sum of $8,000- held by the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee; .that the plaintiffs are respectively the widow and heirs at law of the said Lewis Eliason,…