Legal Opinion

Laraway v. Larue

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 24, 1884PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeal from Muscatine District Gou/rt. Action to quiet title to an undivided half of eighty acres of land in Cedar county, being the E. of S. E. ¿ of section 33, township 79 north, range 4 west. Decree was entered for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.

Both plaintiff' and defendant claim under one Bernard Connelly, who was, at the time of his death, the owner of an undivided half of a tract of four hundred acres, which tract embraced the eighty acres in question. Bernard Connelly died intestate, and the plaintiff claims by purchase from his heirs. The defendant claims by purchase from one of the heirs. He also claims by adverse possession. Whether the plaintiff has proved any title in himself is one of the questions presented'in argument, but we have not felt called upon to determine it, because it appears to us that, whatever title, if…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Oliver v. PiattSupreme Court of the United States · 1845
  2. Burns v. ByrneSupreme Court of Iowa · 1876
  3. Kitteridge v. ChapmanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1873
  4. Rogers v. HusseySupreme Court of Iowa · 1873
  5. Farr v. ReillySupreme Court of Iowa · 1882

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Goulding v. ShonquistSupreme Court of Iowa · 1913
  2. Thompson v. OdomSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966
  3. Honea v. ArledgeCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1909
  4. Steele & Son v. Sioux Valley BankSupreme Court of Iowa · 1890
  5. Jonas v. WeiresSupreme Court of Iowa · 1907

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