Kruse v. Fredlum

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This vras an action of partition in which a controvery arose among the heirs of Charles T. Kruse, deceased, as to the ownership of an eighty-acre tract of the land involved. There was no contention as to the heirs of Charles T. Kruse nor as to the respective shares of each in the land owned by him at the time of his death, but one of the heirs, a daughter, Louisa L. Rose, alleged and offered evidence to prove that although the legal title stood in the name of her father when he died the equitable title and real ownership was in her. It…