Welke v. Wackershauser
Supreme Court of Iowa
’Appeal from Boone District Court. — Hon. W. D. Evans, Judge. Action to have established the plaintiffs’ interests in a certain tract of real property and for partition thereof. The defendants Samuel A. and Stella Wackershauser denied the interests claimed by plaintiffs and asserted title in themselves to the entire premises. There was a decree for plaintiffs, and the defendants Samuel A. and Stella Wackershauser, his wife, appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
In the year 1900 Jacob Wackershauser, the father of the three plaintiffs and of defendants Samuel A. and Chas. W. Wackershauser, died seised in fee simple of a quarter section of land in Boone County which is the subject-matter of the present suit. His wife, Catherine Wackershauser, survived him and became owner of an undivided one-third interest in said land; each of the children above named becoming owner of a one-fifth interest in the remaining two-thirds. The interests of the other heirs in this undivided two-thirds share passed by purchase into the ownership of defendants Samuel A.…
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