Bockholt v. Kraft
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buchanan District Court. — Hon. John J. Net, Judge. Action in chancery to foreclose a mortgage. There' was a judgment for the debt secured, and a decree foreclosing the mortgage as to a part of the land covered thereby. Plaintiff and defendant Antoinette Kraffc appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, J.-
I. The facts which are not disputed, or are established by preponderance of the evidence, are these: The defendants are husband and wife. The father of the husband gave him eighty acres of land, and the-wife’s father gave her an equal amount adj oining the-husband’s land. There was but little improvement on either tract. A house of little value was upon the husband’s land, which he and his wife occupied until he built a better one on the same tract of land, costing six hundred dollars or eight hundred dollars, with money which he. borrowed from the wife’s father. He borrowed other…
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