Good v. Norley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Polk District Court. Action in chancery.- — -The facts disclosed by the record are substantially as follows: In the month of September, 1851, one John Norley died intestate, seized in fee simple of the real estate described in the plaintiff’s petition, and leaving as his widow the defendant, Sarah Ann Fifield, then Norley, and the defendant, Mary Norley, then an infant under the age of two years, his only child.
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Appeal from, Polk District Court. Action in chancery.- — -The facts disclosed by the record are substantially as follows: In the month of September, 1851, one John Norley died intestate, seized in fee simple of the real estate described in the plaintiff’s petition, and leaving as his widow the defendant, Sarah Ann Fifield, then Norley, and the defendant, Mary Norley, then an infant under the age of two years, his only child. April 6, 1852, John M. Perry, his administrator, as such, filed in the County Court of Polk county a petition for an order to sell real estate, including the parcel in…
1Opinion of the CourtBeok, J.
The questions presented upon the record before us are of very great importance, and involve principles that may be of frequent application in the adjudication of titles to lands by the courts of this State. They require the construction of a statute which has, been in force since the Code of 1851, providing for the sale of the real estate of intestates, under which lands of great value throughout the State have been sold, and upon which titles thereto rest. In view of the fact that the statute is still in force, and future proceedings affecting property will be governed by it, the importance…
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