Boggs v. Douglass
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Monroe District Court. — ITon. H. C. Traverse, Judge. Action in equity to recover possession of certain real estate, to correct errors in its description in a certain action instituted to subject it to the payment of a judgment, and to quiet the title to such real estate in the plaintiff. There was a hearing on the merits, and a decree which denied to the plaintiff a part of the relief demanded.
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Appeal from Monroe District Court. — ITon. H. C. Traverse, Judge. Action in equity to recover possession of certain real estate, to correct errors in its description in a certain action instituted to subject it to the payment of a judgment, and to quiet the title to such real estate in the plaintiff. There was a hearing on the merits, and a decree which denied to the plaintiff a part of the relief demanded. From so much of the decree as is adverse to his interests, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBobinson, C. J.
On the seventeenth day of February, 1883, for the stated consideration of thirty-nine thousand, one hundred and twenty-five dollars, Aaron and William Hicks executed to Archie Douglass a warranty deed, which purported to convey to him. about eight hundred and thirty-five acres of land in Monroe county, including that in controversy in this action, which is described as follows: “The east half of the northeast quarter and southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-two, and the west half of the northwest quarter of section thirty-three, all in township seventy-three north, of…
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