Hounchin v. Salyards
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeals from Taylor District Court. — Hon. H. K. Evans, Judge. In the first of the entitled actions recovery for unpaid purchase price of eighty acres of land was sought, and in the second the relief prayed was that title thereto be quieted in plaintiff. The suits were heard together on the same evidence, but separate decrees entered. The decree in the first was as prayed^ and in the second the petition was dismissed.
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Appeals from Taylor District Court. — Hon. H. K. Evans, Judge. In the first of the entitled actions recovery for unpaid purchase price of eighty acres of land was sought, and in the second the relief prayed was that title thereto be quieted in plaintiff. The suits were heard together on the same evidence, but separate decrees entered. The decree in the first was as prayed^ and in the second the petition was dismissed. The defendants in the first -and' the plaintiff in the second appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
The subject in dispute is eighty acres of land. It appears that Joseph B. and William Gr. Meredith ‘acquired a quarter section in Taylor county in 1858, and that the former, died in 1861, leaving him surviving a widow, Nahama G-. Meredith, and an only child bearing his father’s name. Under the law then in force the widow was entitled to a life estate in one-third, and the child the remainder and the other two-thirds. He died within a year, and the widow took a life estate in the other two-thirds, and after her death an undivided one-half would p’ass to the nearest heirs of h'er deceased…
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