Ragan v. Looney

BARRETT, Commissioner.

This controversy between three sets of cousins, in essence an action to quiet and determine title to 200 acres of land in Polk County, arises out of “a flaw in the title” created when their grandfather in 1875 devised the land to his wife until death or remarriage then to three of his sons, the fathers of the present parties, and “the heirs of their bodies.” Insofar as material here the 1875 devise was “and in the event of the death or marriage of my said wife, then and in that event, all of said * * * real estate shall descend-and absolutely belong to my said sons,…