Trask v. Trask
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buchanan District Court. — Hon. John J. Ney, Judge. This is a suit in equity, and involves the rights of the plaintiff and the defendant in certain real estate •and personal property once owned by Ami H. Trask, now deceased. There was a decree in the district court for the defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBothrock, J.
Ami H. Trask was a resident of the city of Independence, in this state. He died in the month of June, 1891, at the age of about sixty-eight years. The plaintiff is his widow, and the defendant is his son. He was twice married. The defendant is the son -of his first wife. He married the plaintiff *319about twenty years before bis death. His death was neither sudden nor unexpected. It was caused by the fatal disease known as cancer. The defendant was the only child born to him, and at the time of the father’s death the son was about twenty-seven years old, and was married. The plaintiff never had…
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