Rankin v. Miller
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Black Hawk District Court. Action in chancery to establish and quiet in plaintiff the title to tlie undivided eleven-eighteenths of two hundred and eighty acres of land in Black Hawk county. The relief was granted as to one hundred and sixty acres of the land, and denied as to the remainder. Both parties appeal. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from Black Hawk District Court. Action in chancery to establish and quiet in plaintiff the title to tlie undivided eleven-eighteenths of two hundred and eighty acres of land in Black Hawk county. The relief was granted as to one hundred and sixty acres of the land, and denied as to the remainder. Both parties appeal. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion. The recording of an instrument defectively acknowledged and where the certificate required in case of acknowledgments before a justice of the peace in another state is omitted, does not impart notice to subsequent purchasers…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
The admitted or established facts, as we find them in this case, are as follows:
I.Plaintiff’s title is based upon the following conveyances and facts:
1. November 24, 1853, Benjamin H. Towner entered, at the United States land office at Dubuque, all the lands in controversy, which are all in section 13, township 88, range 13 west, and received a certificate of entry, issued by the proper officer in the usual form. On the 18th of October, 1858, a patent was issued to him for the lands.
2. August 13, 1854, Towner sold and conveyed the lands to Daniel J. and Armstrong Eankin. The deed is lost, but…
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