Ellis v. White
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Marion District Court. Action to partition certain lands, tbe plaintiff claiming a dower interest therein. There was a decree establishing plaintiff’s right and title to an undivided one-third of the lands. The defendants appeal. The facts of the case are fully-stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
— I. The plaintiff in her petition claitns-dower in the lands in question as the widow of William Ellis, to whom she was married in 1837, and who died in 1876.
*645The defendants in their answer allege that in 1855 the plaintiff prosecuted against defendant a proceeding for a divorce and alimony, in the district court of Marion county, and a decree of divorce was had therein, and alimony to the amount of $600 was allowed to plaintiff; that subsequently Ellis conveyed the lands, which are situated in Marion county, to the grantor of the defendants, by deed of warranty, who by a like deed conveyed…
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