Kubic v. Zemke
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Floyd District Court. — Hon. J. F. Clyde, Judge. Henry Zemke is a son of the 'defendant. Defendant was manied in Milwaukee in 1871 or 1872, and went to live in Nora Springs, Iowa; and after two or three months, there was a .separation, and his wife went to Milwaukee, Wis., where Henry was born October 11, 1873. Within two or three years, defendant was -divorced from hi-s wife, and married 1 again.
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Appeal from Floyd District Court. — Hon. J. F. Clyde, Judge. Henry Zemke is a son of the 'defendant. Defendant was manied in Milwaukee in 1871 or 1872, and went to live in Nora Springs, Iowa; and after two or three months, there was a .separation, and his wife went to Milwaukee, Wis., where Henry was born October 11, 1873. Within two or three years, defendant was -divorced from hi-s wife, and married 1 again. When Henry was fifteen years old, he visited Ms father at Nora Springs, when, a® he says-, his father desired him. to remain and work for him for ten dollars per month, and board- and…
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
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3 *270—The controlling issue in the case is that as to emancipation. The facts are practically beyond dispute, except as to what occurred when Henry worked for his father in 1891. Both Henry .and his father were witnesses, and their testimony is in conflict as to important details, bearing on the question of emancipation. There is no question but that he *271worked under a contract for wages, but Henry says he left the employment because bis father refused to pay Mm; saying to Henry that be was bis -son, that be did not owe Mm anything, arid that be bad to- work for Mm till be was twenty-one. The…
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