Sheppard v. Messenger
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Lee Distñct Gourt. — Hon. Henry Bank, Jr., Judge. Action in equity to redeem real property held in trust for the.payment of a debt, to procure the conveyance to the plaintiff of the legal title to the property, and to quiet the title in her. There was a hearing on the merits, and a decree in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
In April, 1890, Mrs. Lonisa Grimsley purchased of Eliza Malcolm the front fifty feet of three lots in the city of Keokuk, which are duly described, for one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Of that sum Mrs. Grimsley paid six hundred and fifty dollars, and received a contract for the conveyance of the property, which she caused to be made on her part in the name of her brother, George W. Messenger. She afterwards erected a house on the property, and upon the full payment of the purchase price a deed for the property was executed to her brother, in February, 1892. ILe died testate, and…
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