Quaas v. Quaas

William Quaas and his wife, De Merle, instituted this suit against William’s father and mother, Orval E. Quaas and Alice Quaas, to establish in William a one-half interest in fee simple in defendants’ farm, and to partition the property. Defendants denied plaintiffs’ claims of part ownership and by counterclaim or cross-petition asked that their title be quieted against plaintiffs. Trial resulted in judgment establishing, in plaintiff William Quaas, an undivided one-half interest in the property, for his life only, denying partition and denying the prayer of defendants’ cross-petition.…