Adams v. Adams
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Adams District Court. ActioN in equity for the cancellation of a promissory note, and a mortgage on real estate given as security for the same. The district court entered a judgment in accordance with the prayer of the petition. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
The plaintiff and defendant are children of Ebenezer Adams, who died in January, 1884, at the age of *254ninety-four years. He left surviving him the parties to this action and five other children. For the last six months of I'his life he lived with plaintiff and Mrs. Chloe Weedon, another daughter. Previous to that, for about eight years, he had lived with another daughter, Sarah Hutchison. Some years before his death he executed a will, by which he devised all the property of which he should be seized at the time of his death to plaintiff, Mrs. Weedon and Mrs. Hutch-ison, in equal shares. A…
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