Joest v. Adel

Christine Joest was the owner in fee of the eighty acres of land involved in this litigation. She and her husband,Valentine Joest, plaintiff in error here, executed two mortgages on the land,,—one to Ellen Hall and the other to Louis Adelsberger,—in each of which they released their homestead and dower rights. Christine died testate on January 15, 1900, leaving surviving her her husband, Valentine, and certain children by a former marriage. On August 14, 1900, Valentine, the husband, filed his petition in the circuit court of Monroe county for the assignment of his homestead and dower in said…