Feddersen v. Feddersen

HARRIS, Justice.

We affirm the trial court’s entry of a nunc pro tunc order which corrected the form of a partition decree.

Plaintiff Eldon Feddersen and defendant Merle Feddersen are brothers. Their father, Harry E. Feddersen, died in October of 1965 leaving 120 acres of land as part of his estate. Forty of those acres were owned in his name alone; an adjoining 80 acres were owned as joint tenants by Harry Feddersen and his wife, Florence, the mother of the parties.

After her husband’s death, Florence Fed-dersen owned the 80 acres by operation of the joint tenancy. She received a life estate in…