Fogg v. Holcomb
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Guthrie Gvrcuit Court. Plaintiff brought this action in equity to quiet his title to three hundred and twenty acres of land. Defendant denied that plaintiff was the owner of the land, and in a cross petition alleged that she was the absolute owner thereof, and prayed that her title thereto be quieted. The judgment of the circuit court was for plaintiff. Defendant ajipeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
The land in question was entered by one Porteus E. Roberts, and the parties each claim title from him. Plaintiff’s claim, as shown by the abstract attached to the petition, is that Roberts conveyed the land to Townsend Webster on the twentieth of March, 1856, and that Webster conveyed it to John Comstock on the ninth of January, 1882, and that he conveyed it on the thirty-first of May, 1882, to Charles S. Eogg, who conveyed it to plaintiff on the thirty-first of May, 1882.
Defendant’s claim, as shown by the abstract of title attached to her answer, is that Roberts conveyed the land on the…
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