Dewey v. Peck
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Jasper Circuit Court. Action for the recovery of real property —the east % of the north-west \ and the north-west £ of the north-east \ of section 33, township 19, north of range 20, west, in Jasper county.
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Appeal from, Jasper Circuit Court. Action for the recovery of real property —the east % of the north-west \ and the north-west £ of the north-east \ of section 33, township 19, north of range 20, west, in Jasper county. Both defendants deny plaintiff’s title to the above last described tract of forty acres; and the wife, E. G. S. Peck, files a cross-petition setting up title in herself as to said forty acres of land, and asking that the sheriff’s deed to plaintiff therefor be set aside, and for other relief, etc. Answer to cross-petition in denial. Trial to court, and judgment for defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
In May, 1856, the defendant, E. E. Peck, became indebted to the plaintiff and his brother in the *243sum of $370.33, and to secure the payment thereof in one year from that date, the defendants executed a mortgage, which was duly recorded, upon the land in controversy. The fee title to the eighty acres was in the defendant, E. R. Peck, and to the forty, was in the defendant, E. GL S. Peck; a portion of the money borrowed was used to pay for the land mortgaged. On September 10, 1856, Benjamin Adams recovered judgment in the Jasper district court against E. R. Peck for $238.56, besides costs; and…
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