Brenneman v. Bennett

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

STEPHENSON, Chief Judge.

This cause was removed from the District Court of Iowa, in and for Polk County. Requisite diversity and jurisdictional amount exist. It is now before the Court on plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment.

This is an action to establish and determine interests in a certain parcel of real estate situated in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, for an accounting, and for the partition and sale of the said property. Plaintiffs, one branch of the former owners’ family, claim that the property is free from trust and that their alleged one-half interest is…