Alexander v. Vennum
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Gass Circuit Court. ■ This is an action in equity to quiet title to forty acres of land. The court dismissed tbe plaintiffs’ petition, and quieted the defendant’s title to the land in controversy. The ^plaintiffs appeal. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
■Day, Ch. J.
— On the fourteenth day of March, 1871, S. Eranklin purchased of the O., E. I. & P. E’y Oo. the land in controversy, and executed to said company a mortgage to secure deferred payments amounting to $200. In January, 1874, S. Franklin sold said land to James McKean, and executed to him a bond for a deed, he assuming the payment of the mortgage to the O., E. I. & P. E’y Oo. On the twenty-eighth day of April, 1876, L. L. Alexander, now deceased, the ancestor of the plaintiffs, recovered a judgment in a justice’s court against James McKean, for $59.35 and costs, and on the…
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