Neal v. Coe
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Washington District Court. Action oe right. Tbe defendants filed an equitable answer and cross-petition, claiming the property in controversy as their homestead. Decree for defendants. Plaintiff appeals. The facts are disclosed in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
About the 1st of March, 1857, the defendants owned a homestead in Davenport, of the value of $1,400, on which they resided. At that time the defendant Wales Coe, being called to the pastorate of a congregation at Crawfordsville, Washington county, the defendants purchased the premises in controversy for $800, being fifteen acres of ground in the suburbs of the town of Crawfordsville, with house, stable, shrubbery and fruit *408trees thereon, with the view of occupying it as their home. The deed to this property was executed to Julia E. Ooe about the 1st of April following.
The defendant Wales left…
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