Vittengl v. Vittengl
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Johnson . District Court. — Hon. R. P. Howell, Judge. Action to quiet title. It was brought against the defendant Josefa Yittengl as, sole defendant. The petition was in the statutory form. The real purpose of the action, however, was to remove from plaintiff’s title the cloud of an apparent lien of a judgment held by the defendant Josefa against the former husband of the plaintiff. The defendant set up such judgment, and asserted her alleged lien.
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Appeal from Johnson . District Court. — Hon. R. P. Howell, Judge. Action to quiet title. It was brought against the defendant Josefa Yittengl as, sole defendant. The petition was in the statutory form. The real purpose of the action, however, was to remove from plaintiff’s title the cloud of an apparent lien of a judgment held by the defendant Josefa against the former husband of the plaintiff. The defendant set up such judgment, and asserted her alleged lien. Marak came into the case as an intervener. He set up a contract of purchase of the premises described in the petition from the…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
We will deal first with the controversy as made between the original parties to the case. The property involved was formerly the property of the plaintiff and her former husband. It consists of eighteen acres of farm land and a half dozen lots in the unincorporated village of Shueyville, in Johnson county. -It was actually occupied by the plaintiff and her husband from the spring of 1906 to the spring of 1908. Thereupon they leased the place to a renter for one year, beginning March 1, 1908. They moved to Cedar Rapids, eight miles distant, where the husband had obtained temporary employment.…
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