Mallow v. Walker
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buchanan District Court— Hon. Franklin C. Platt, Judge. These four actions, affecting the distribution of the property of Gamaliel Walker, now deceased, were, by agreement, consolidated, and tried as one equitable action, and a decree was rendered adjusting the various claims of the parties. The real parties in interest are John and Laura Mallow on the one side and Simon Walker on the other.
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Appeal from Buchanan District Court— Hon. Franklin C. Platt, Judge. These four actions, affecting the distribution of the property of Gamaliel Walker, now deceased, were, by agreement, consolidated, and tried as one equitable action, and a decree was rendered adjusting the various claims of the parties. The real parties in interest are John and Laura Mallow on the one side and Simon Walker on the other. The decree was in some respects favorable to one side in the general controversy, and in other respects favorable to the other, and both sides appeal. Walker will be treated as appellant.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
1 Gamaliel Walker died December 21, 1898, having attained the age of nearly 82 years, and leaving, as his estate, one 40-acre tract of land and a small amount of personal property. For some years prior to August, 1898, he had lived with his daughter, Laura Mallow, and her husband, John, both of them parties in these proceedings. In that month, however, he left the home of the Mallows, and went to live with, his son, Simon (the appellant), , and wife. While living with the Mallows, Gamaliel Walker had made a will devising the 40-acre tract of land above referred to, and which was then in…
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