Pegg v. Pegg
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Harrison District 'Court. — 'Hon. O. D. Wiieeier, Judge. Action in equity by Margaret Pegg, claiming to be tbe widow of Elias W. Pegg, deceased, to have her right to one-half the property of the decedent confirmed in her as his widow, to have said property partitioned, and to have defendants enjoined from interfering with plaintiff in the enjoyment of the property alleged by her to have been occupied by her and decedent at his death as a homestead, and asking…
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Appeal from Harrison District 'Court. — 'Hon. O. D. Wiieeier, Judge. Action in equity by Margaret Pegg, claiming to be tbe widow of Elias W. Pegg, deceased, to have her right to one-half the property of the decedent confirmed in her as his widow, to have said property partitioned, and to have defendants enjoined from interfering with plaintiff in the enjoyment of the property alleged by her to have been occupied by her and decedent at his death as a homestead, and asking other equitable relief. Defendants, who are the heirs at law of decedent, one of them having been appointed administrator…
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
In 1882 Elias W. Pegg, an unmarried man, who had at one time been a school teacher, and who was then a farmer living in Harrison county, employed in his home as housekeeper the plaintiff, then and since known as Mrs. Margaret Asher. She brought with her to his house two inf ant ■ daughters, who lived with him until their *574marriage. According to her testimony. she had been married to one Asher of Tama county, and had been left by him in 1875, since which time she had not heard from him. The presumption that he was dead in 1882 is not contradicted by any evidence in the record. Prom 1882 until…
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