Helscher v. Gilbert

The administrator of the estate of Katherine Louise Hoyt having filed an application to sell her interest in certain real estate consisting of a residence property in Sigourney, Keokuk County, to pay costs of administration of her estate, the Iowa State Board of Social Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the Board), intervened, asserting title to said realty by virtue of a tax deed. A second count of its petition of intervention alleged that it held certain liens against the real estate because of old-age assistance furnished to James Marion Gilbert and Martha Ellen Gilbert, the parents of…