Windle v. Brandt
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk Circuit Court Action in equity to determine the title to certain real estate. Both parties claim under Geo. W. J ones. The plaintiff under a conveyance from him, and the defendant under a sheriff’s deed made in pursuance of a sale under an execution against Jones. Judgment for the defendant and the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtServers, J.
— Geo. W. Jones owned and occupied as his homestead in 186J and thereafter a parcel of land about ■ninety-nine feet front by one hundred and seventy-one feet deep in the city of Des Moines.
On the 28th day of May, 18T8, he executed a conveyance *222whereby he conveyed what may be well designated as the west sixty feet to McClain. The house occupied by Jones as a home was situated on the parcel so conveyed.
The conveyance was made in pursuance of an exchange of other real estate owned by McClain, on which was situated a dwelling-house, and three hundred dollars paid Jones. McClain declined to…
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