Meier v. Lee
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Mitchell District Court. — Hon. J. C. Sherwin, Judge. Plaintive, widow of Paul E. Meier, who died a citizen of Mitcbell county, Iowa, on the twenty-fourth day of May, 1892, intestate and without issue, brought this action to partition'certain land in said county he owned at the time of his death, of which she claims one-half.
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Appeal from, Mitchell District Court. — Hon. J. C. Sherwin, Judge. Plaintive, widow of Paul E. Meier, who died a citizen of Mitcbell county, Iowa, on the twenty-fourth day of May, 1892, intestate and without issue, brought this action to partition'certain land in said county he owned at the time of his death, of which she claims one-half. Paul H. Paulson and the other defendant appellees answered, admitting that plaintiff was entitled to one-half of said land, and by cross bill alleged that they are the sole and only heirs at law of said deceased, other than the plaintiff, competent to…
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
1 I. The claim of the plaintiff to one-half of the land is not disputed. The contention is between Paul H. Paulson and the other defendant appellees on the one side, and the defendant appellants on the other side. The facts as shown in appellants’ cross petition necessary to be noticed are these: The deceased left neither parent, brother, sister, grandparent, uncle, nor aunt surviving him, and the parties to this appeal were his nearest living relatives. Appellees were the decedent’s cousins of half blood, having with him a common grandfather, but a different grandmother. Appellants were…
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