Boehnke v. Roenfanz

Each of the two plaintiffs seeks to have established an undivided two-ninths interest in a 610-acre farm in Hancock County, inherited from their father and transferred to their brother, defendant Walter T. Roenfanz, in trust for the payment of certain debts of their father’s estate. Plaintiffs prayed also partition of the real estate and an accounting. The parties stipulated and the court ordered that the issue of ownership of the claimed interests in the land be first tried and other issues be reserved pending determination thereof. Upon trial each plaintiff was adjudged the owner of a…