Switzer v. Knapps
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dubuque District Court. The original bill was filed by Israel Switzer, since deceased, and the present plaintiff is substituted as bis admistrator. The bill is for an injunction to restrain a conveyance by the sheriff and to settle and quiet the title to certain tracts of land in Dubuque county. The original complainant claimed as the father and sole heir at law of one Owen Switzer.
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Appeal from Dubuque District Court. The original bill was filed by Israel Switzer, since deceased, and the present plaintiff is substituted as bis admistrator. The bill is for an injunction to restrain a conveyance by the sheriff and to settle and quiet the title to certain tracts of land in Dubuque county. The original complainant claimed as the father and sole heir at law of one Owen Switzer. The decree of the District Court was rendered in favor of the petitioner, and the respondents appeal. The questions made, and tin? facts connected with them, appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
The controversy relates to the three fol*73lowing parcels of land: No. 1. S E \ of S W -¿, section 30, township 89 N 1,E 5th p. m. No. 2. NE of N E I-, section 31, township 89, N1, E 5thp. m. No. 3. N E £ section 31, township 89, N 1, E 5th p. nr. The most brief and convenient method of referring to these, will be by the numbers in the foregoing order. The complainant’s bill calls for the whole of the N E of section 31 above ; but this is presumed to bo an error in transcribing, as the exhibits (and the whole case) contain, and refer to, the north half only of that quarter, spoken of most…
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