Luken v. Eckhoff

Appellants, children of Heika Dena Luken, and grandchildren of Reinder Zimmerman, claiming to be the owners of an undivided seven-twenty-fourths interest in certain real estate, brought this action in partition. The court found and decreed that the title to the whole of the real estate was in appellee Louis Bergheim, and that appellants had no title to any part thereof.

Reinder Zimmerman died, testate, in 1902, the owner of the property in question. By Item 2 of his will, he gave his wife, Fredericka Zimmerman, a life estate in the property, and provided that she should pay all taxes thereon,…