Dashner v. Dashner
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mills District Court. — Hon. A. B. Thornell, Judge. Actions iu equity, brought by the plaintiff, as widow of Frank H. Dashner, who died on May 1, 1906, to set aside deeds made by the deceased to his children by a former marriage, which deeds were made the day before the marriage, and are alleged to have been made fraudulently and for the purpose of depriving the plaintiff of her prospective dower rights.
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Appeal from Mills District Court. — Hon. A. B. Thornell, Judge. Actions iu equity, brought by the plaintiff, as widow of Frank H. Dashner, who died on May 1, 1906, to set aside deeds made by the deceased to his children by a former marriage, which deeds were made the day before the marriage, and are alleged to have been made fraudulently and for the purpose of depriving the plaintiff of her prospective dower rights. There was a decree for the defendant in the first case, and for the plaintiff in the second case, and both parties appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, C. J.
The plaintiff was married to the deceased on January 13, 1898. The deeds complained of were executed on the day previous. The deceased was the owner of five hundred and twenty acres of land. On the *350date named the deceased executed and placed of record a deed to his oldest son, Frank E. Dashner, for eighty acres of land, being the N. % of the N. E. j4 of a certain section 10. At the same time he executed another deed to his two minor sons, Earl D. and Clay II. Dashner, for two hundred and eighty acres, including the homestead, and described as the S. E. *4, and the E. % of the S. W. % of said…
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