Bell v. Dufur
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clarke District Court. — Hon. H. M. ' Towner, Judge. Actions in equity to set aside conveyances of real estate from William Bell, the deceased husband of the plaintiff, to each of three children by a former marriage, and subject the three parcels of land covered by said conveyances to her claim for dower therein; the allegation of ground for such relief being that said conveyances were made shortly before plaintiff’s marriage to said William Bell, and without her…
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Appeal from Clarke District Court. — Hon. H. M. ' Towner, Judge. Actions in equity to set aside conveyances of real estate from William Bell, the deceased husband of the plaintiff, to each of three children by a former marriage, and subject the three parcels of land covered by said conveyances to her claim for dower therein; the allegation of ground for such relief being that said conveyances were made shortly before plaintiff’s marriage to said William Bell, and without her knowledge, and in fraud of the rights which she was induced to believe she would acquire by such marriage. After a…
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
The plaintiff and William Bell were married on July 2, 1902, in Clarke County, after a courtship of not exceeding’ two months. William Bell was then eighty years of age, and. for two years a widower, and plaintiff was a widow forty-seven years of age, with two minor children. „ At the date of the commencement of this courtship William Bell was the owner of about three hundred acres of land in Clarke County of the value of about $15,000, which value had, at the time of the trial of the case in 1908, increased to about $25,000. On June 23, 1902, nine days before the marriage, William Bell…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Beechley v. BeechleySupreme Court of Iowa · 1906
- Wallace v. WallaceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1908
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