Patty v. Payne
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dallas District Court. — W. H. Faiiey, Judge. Action in partition. There was a decree for plaintiff, by which he and his two sisters and a brother, defendants, were each given one fourth of the real property. The decree also reformed an alleged misdescription as to a part of the land. The defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtPreston, J.
' common^ mutual rights and duties: acquisition of tax title. Plaintiff, appellee, claimed an undivided one fourth of the lands described in the petition, under and by virtue of a deed from Lucinda Davis and Isaac J. Davis, appellee’s grandmother and grandfather, to Rhoda J. Patty and Seth Patty, mother and . lather of appellee, m trust for this appellee . and his sisters and brother. Many of the allegations of the petition are admitted by the answer. Defendants say that plaintiff is not entitled to a one-fourth interest, or any interest, in said land, and as a defense allege that one of the…
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