Fitch v. Reiser
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Chiclca-sato District Court. — Hon. L. O. Hatch, Judge. This is an action in equity by which the plaintiffs seek to set aside and annul a deed of certain real estate which was executed by James D. Fitch to the defendant, Martha M. Reiser. The plaintiffs and the defendant are the children of said Fitch. Upon a final hearing upon the merits the district court granted the prayer of the petition, and annulled the deed. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothbook, C. J.
James D. Fitch owned and for many years resided upon a farm of about one hundred acres in Chickasaw county. He was the father of the parties to this action. His wife died on the thirteenth day of September, 1886. On the twenty-first day of the same month he made the deed in question, by which he conveyed his farm to his daughter, the defendant in this action. He died on the twenty-sixth day of September, 1887, at the advanced age of nearly eighty-three years. He was a man of no education, as the term is commonly used. He was several years older than his wife, and the evidence shows that for…
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