Sturdevant v. Norris

i. dower : change of'law. From the evidence it appears that, on the 3d day of May, 1854, William Sturdevant entered into a contract with the school fund commissioner of Bremer county, Iowa, for the purchase of the north half of section 5, in township 91, north of range 13 west, at the rate of $1.25 per acre, paying one-fourth of the purchase-money down, the balance payable in ten years, with ten per centum interest; 'that, on the 11th day of December, 1858, William Sturdevant and wife (the present plaintiff) executed a trust deed to C. M. Kingsley, trustee, of the north-west quarter of said…