Knox v. Hanlon
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk Circuit Court. Tee plaintiff, the grandson of Catherine Hanlon, claims •that by inheritance from Catherine Hanlon, and purchase from another of her heirs, he is the owner of an undivided four 'twenty-first parts of a certain forty acres of land of which the -said Catherine Hanlon died seized. The plaintiff makes the other heirs of Catherine Hanlon parties defendant,- and asks partition of the real estate described.
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Appeal from Polk Circuit Court. Tee plaintiff, the grandson of Catherine Hanlon, claims •that by inheritance from Catherine Hanlon, and purchase from another of her heirs, he is the owner of an undivided four 'twenty-first parts of a certain forty acres of land of which the -said Catherine Hanlon died seized. The plaintiff makes the other heirs of Catherine Hanlon parties defendant,- and asks partition of the real estate described. The defendant, A. F. Hanlon, alone answered. He admits that Catherine Hanlon died seized of the real estate in question, and that she left, the persons named in…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
In October, 1873, John Hanlon died seized of one-hundred and sixty acres of land, forty acres of which, the land which is the subject of this controversy, the said John Hanlon, for a long time prior to his death, with his wife, Catherine Hanlon, had occupied as a homestead. Catherine Hanlon, for about two years after her husband’s death, continued to-occupy the old homestead, with one of her granddaughters. Being very aged and helpless, and requiring much care and attention, she then went to live with her son, A. E. Hanlon, appellant. She took part of her household furniture, and left *254part at…
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