Davies v. Beadle
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Howard District Cov/rt. Thursday, October 23. Action in equity for an undivided one-sixth interest in the town of Creseo, Howard couDty, situated. upon the north fifty-one fifty-six hundredths acres of the north half north-west quarter, section twenty-six, and one hundred and eight thirty-one hundredths acres off the south side of the south-west quarter of section 23, township 99, range 11. John T. Stoneman filed a petition of intervention, claiming the…
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Appeal from, Howard District Cov/rt. Thursday, October 23. Action in equity for an undivided one-sixth interest in the town of Creseo, Howard couDty, situated. upon the north fifty-one fifty-six hundredths acres of the north half north-west quarter, section twenty-six, and one hundred and eight thirty-one hundredths acres off the south side of the south-west quarter of section 23, township 99, range 11. John T. Stoneman filed a petition of intervention, claiming the one-eighth part of the interest of Davies and Beadle in said town. Judgment for plaintiff, for the interest claimed, and…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
I. The case is quite voluminous, the abstract. of the pleadings and evidence embracing 149 pages of closely-printed matter.
1. Equity. It is apparent that a review of all the evidence is neither practicable nor desirable. Much of it, in the view which we take of the case, is irrelevant. The cause was tried by the first method, and is revie wable here, de novo. It will much simplify the case to set out its history, as nearly as practicable in chronological, order,- eliminating from it every collateral and immaterial matter.
On the 29th day of February, 1869, T. P. Davies, the plaintiff, and…
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