Mayes v. Turley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie Circmt Gowrt. The plaintiff is the duly appointed and qualified administrator of the estate of one Harrison Y. Osborn, deceased. As such he brings this action to recover of the defendants for certain money, which it is alleged belongs to the estate, and has come into the hands of the defendants, and is wrongfully retained by them. The defendants for answer pleaded a general denial.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie Circmt Gowrt. The plaintiff is the duly appointed and qualified administrator of the estate of one Harrison Y. Osborn, deceased. As such he brings this action to recover of the defendants for certain money, which it is alleged belongs to the estate, and has come into the hands of the defendants, and is wrongfully retained by them. The defendants for answer pleaded a general denial. Afterward they filed an amendment in which they averred in substance that the defendant, Louisa J. Turley, received the money in question under a contract with the decedent, whereby, in…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
I. On the 25th day of June, 1879, the plaintiff’s intestate was a pauper, in very feeble health, and an inmate of the poor-house of Pottawattamie county. About that time he received $694, as a pension, which money, with the intestate’s consent, passed into the hands of the defendant, Louisa J. Turley, wife of the defendant, Marshall Turley, and she caused the intestate to be removed from the poor-house and to be provided for duxing the remainder of his life, which terminated on the 7th day of July following. She claims that she received the money under a contract to provide for the intestate…
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