Killmer v. Wuchner
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Keoltuk Circuit Court. Action in equity to quiet in plaintiff the title to eighty acres of land. The circuit court found that plaintiff was the owner of the undivided one-third of the land, and entered judgment quieting his title to that amount, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
The land formerly belonged to Joseph Wuchner. He died in the state of Kentucky, in 1854, leaving surviving him Dorothea, his widow, and the defendants, his children, one of whom was one year and the other, three years old. He also left a will, which was admitted to probate in a court of that state having probate jurisdiction. The widow afterwards intermarried with Philip Strohman. In 1864, she and her husband executed a deed which purported to convey the land to John Killmer, and in 1866 said John Killmer executed a conveyance thereof to plaintiff. In 1862, Philip Strohman, claiming to be the…
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