Sorenson v. Davis
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Gowrt. — Hon. H. E. Deemer, Judge. Action in equity to establish and confirm in the plaintiffs the title to one moiety in lots 1-3, block 28, and lots 1-10 and 21-30, block 49, in Brown’s subdivision in the city of Council Bluffs.
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Appeal from Pottawattamie District Gowrt. — Hon. H. E. Deemer, Judge. Action in equity to establish and confirm in the plaintiffs the title to one moiety in lots 1-3, block 28, and lots 1-10 and 21-30, block 49, in Brown’s subdivision in the city of Council Bluffs. The plaintiffs claim such title as the heirs-at-law of W. D. Brown, deceased, and allege that the appellant Davis claims to be the absolute owner of the whole title, under certain pretended tax deeds to the defendants, John T. Baldwin and Gr. M. Dodge, and to the firm of Baldwin & Dodge; that, ever since 1857, the plaintiffs and…
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
1. title to real reoord:deed: notice. I. There is no question but that W. D. Brown, the ancestor of plaintiffs, died seized of the undivided one-half of the lots in controversy; neither is there any question as †.0 cjefen¿Lants> chain of title under the tax deeds, except as to a single link. Frank J. Magin and wife, having title under the tax deeds, conveyed to “Christian Temple,” as it is claimed to appear in the record of the deed, which alone is in evidence, while it was “Christian Teufel” who made the conveyance under which the defendants claim. We have neither the deed nor the record of…
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