Bolton v. Oberne, Hosick & Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from PolTc District Court. — .Hon. Josiah Given, Judge. Action in equity to quiet title. There was a trial on the merits, and a decree for plaintiff. The defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The property in controversy is “the west sixty feet of lot 9, block 19, East Fort Des Moines, now included in the city of Des Moines.” In the year 1867, it was owned by B. F. Allen. At some time, not later than the year 1869, he contracted to sell it to Hazard Parks and his son T. J. Parks, and on the twenty-second day of October, 1878, a. deed was executed in fulfillment of the contract by the assignee in bankruptcy of Allen. Hazard Parks was a married man, the head of a family, when the property was purchased; and he lived on-and occupied it as a homestead from about the time of its…
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