Jones v. Williams
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from O’Brien District Court. — IIon. Wm. Hutchinson, Judge. On the application of John B. Boyington, who is named in this proceeding as defendant, his codefendant, H. L. Williams, was appointed administrator of the estate of a woman who, during her lifetime, had been generally known as Electa J. Pond, but who, as alleged in the application was in fact his wife. 'Thereupon Mrs. Emily P. Jones, a sister of the deceased, petitioned the court to set aside the appointment…
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Appeal from O’Brien District Court. — IIon. Wm. Hutchinson, Judge. On the application of John B. Boyington, who is named in this proceeding as defendant, his codefendant, H. L. Williams, was appointed administrator of the estate of a woman who, during her lifetime, had been generally known as Electa J. Pond, but who, as alleged in the application was in fact his wife. 'Thereupon Mrs. Emily P. Jones, a sister of the deceased, petitioned the court to set aside the appointment of said'administrator, alleging that John B. Boyington was not the husband of the deceased. By agreement of the parties,…
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, C. J.
— Some time prior to the year 1893 Electa J. Pond, an unmarried woman, built a one-room shanty on a quarter section of land in O’Brien county, intending to perfect her title to it under the homestead laws of the United States. About the same time John B. Boyington, with a similar intention, erected a, similar shanty on another tract of land not far distant in the same county. Each claim was contested. Boyington, who had occupied his shanty but two or three nights, moved it onto the land claimed by Miss Pond, and annexed it to her shanty in such form that together the two constituted one…
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