Hughes v. Lindsey
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Marion District Court. Action in equity to quiet title. The petition states the cause of action as follows: “ Tour petitioner, Henry H. Hughes, respectfully represents unto your honor that on or about the 1st day of February, 1862, one Asa Hughes (being then in full life), late of Marion county, Iowa, was seized in fee simple of the following real estate situated in said county, to wit: The west half of the southwest quarter and the northeast quarter of the…
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Appeal from Marion District Court. Action in equity to quiet title. The petition states the cause of action as follows: “ Tour petitioner, Henry H. Hughes, respectfully represents unto your honor that on or about the 1st day of February, 1862, one Asa Hughes (being then in full life), late of Marion county, Iowa, was seized in fee simple of the following real estate situated in said county, to wit: The west half of the southwest quarter and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twelve (12), in township seventy-seven (77), in range twenty-one (21), west, containing in all…
1Opinion of the CourtConn, J.
— The single question presented in this record is, whether a paroi gift of land, followed by possession under it, the payment of taxes and the making of permanent improvements thereon, is within our statute of'frauds ? The original statute of frauds, as it is called, passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Charles II, chapter 3, section 4, provided, inter aUa, that no action shall be *332brought to charge the defendant upon any contract for the sale of lands, tenements, or herditaments, or any interest in or concerning them, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or…
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- Ague v. SeitsingerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1892
- Trout v. TroutSupreme Court of Iowa · 1876
- Wickham v. HenthornSupreme Court of Iowa · 1894
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