Rogers v. McFarland
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Delaware District Court. — Hon. John J. Ney, Judge. Action in equity to have a certain conveyance of real estate decreed to be in trust, and to have the title to such real estate decreed to be vested in certain beneficiaries of the alleged trust. After the evidence had been fully submitted o;: iAe part of the plaintiff, the court sustained a nmaon to dismiss the petition, and .rendered judgment in favor of the defendants for costs. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
The plaintiff is the father, and' the defendant Alice D. McFarland is the mother of Eva S., Emory J.,Etta M., and Ethel P,, Rogers, all’ of whom are minors, the eldest being about fourteen years of age. For many years prior to 1888 the parents lived together as husband and wife. About the year 1880 the plaintiff purchased about eighty acres of land in Delaware county, and thereafter occupied it with his wife and children as a homestead, until March, 1886. He then sold it for the sum of $2,000, and with a part of the proceeds purchased two thirty acre tracts in the same county, one of which…
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