Murphy v. Murphy
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lucas District Court. — Hon. H. C. Traverse, Judge. This is a proceeding to- establish a claim for money loaned by plaintiff to L. H. Murphy during his lifetime against the defendant, as administratrix of his estate. The case was tried to a jury, and a verdict returned, from which plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
The plaintiff is the mother of L. H, Murphy, deceased, and the mother-in-law of the defend*272ant, who is. administratrix of her husband’s estate. Plaintiff’s husband died in the year 1867, seized of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Louisa county. After the husband’s death, the heirs all quitclaimed their interest in the land tO' the plaintiff, and she remained on the farm for nearly two years, when she sold it. About the same time she sold some property she owned in her own right in the state of Ohio. Soon after selling the properties, she removed to Lucas county, Iowa, and for a time…
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