Irish v. Steeves
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Van Burén District Court. — Hon. M. A. 'Roberts, Judge. Action to quiet title. There was a decree granting relief as against one of the defendants and -as to others denying the full Belief prayed in the petition. Both the plaintiffs and the defendants appeal, but, as defendants’ appeal was first perfected, they will be treated as appellants.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, C. J.
The plaintiffs seek in this action to have their title quieted as to two adjoining eighty-acre tracts of land, each being the east half of a quarter section. For convenience these two tracts will be designated in this opinion as the north eighty and the south eighty. Together these two tracts of land constituted the farm of -one' John Steeves, wiho, on his death in 1895, left a will, duly probated, devising to his surviving wife, Maibala, a life estate in the *288farm in lieu of dower, with, remainders as follows: To- his daughter Mary, (subsequently the wife of O. L. Stevens) the south…
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