Glaser v. Weinberger

This is a partition action. The action was instituted by Alfred C. Glaser and wife. Plaintiff's owned adjoining land on which they had sunk an irrigation well. The 40-acre tract involved was part of a dry-land tract which had very recently sold at public auction for $134 per acre. Alfred C. Glaser, who with his wife owned an undivided one-half interest in the 40-acre tract, attended the partition sale and bid on the land which sold for $15,020, or $375.50 per acre, to appellant James A. Hendrickson. Hendrickson, whose father owns an adjoining 1,260 acres, obviously believes the irrigation…