Feaster v. Fagan
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from KeoTcuk District Court.— Hon. B. W. Preston, Judge. Action to quiet title. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendants and intervener appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
In 1865, one Láwrence Fagan, under whom defendants and intervener claim as heirs and admin*634istrator, died seised of the real-estate in controversy, leaving a will in which he directed that the residue of all his estate, real, personal, and mixed, after the payment of debts and specific bequests, be sold by his executor or executors, and that the balance of the proceeds after satisfying such debts and bequests be divided equally between his legal heirs, naming them, and he nominated two persons to be his executors. The persons named in the will did not qualify as executors, and thereupon the…
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