Brown v. Hermance

A rehearing having been granted and the appeal resubmitted, the former opinion, reported in 6 N. W. 2d 867, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor:

The real estate involved is two city lots, in Marshalltown, Iowa, upon which are a six-room house, a barn, and a chicken house. Appellant’s mother obtained the property from her father in 1894, and since then has lived there almost continuously. In 1940 she was a widow, aged sixty-nine years, and occupied the premises with appellant, who had lived there most of his life- and who was then the head of this family of two. Since 1924,…