Flora v. Brown
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. W. H. McHenry, Judge. This is an application of the plaintiff administrator to sell real estate for the purpose of paying debts. From an order sustaining application, the defendants have appealed.—
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
The plaintiff brought this proceeding as administrator of Lewis Bell. The proceeding was brought under the provision of sections 3323 and 3324. The right of the plaintiff to subject the real estate is resisted upon many *255grounds. The principal facts involved appear in the record by stipulation.
Lewis Bell died in July, 1904. Immediately thereafter the plaintiff was appointed as his administrator. The personal estate, which was small, was immediately converted into money and applied upon the payment of claims. At the time of the death of the decedent, he was the owner of an undivided one-fifth…
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