Jonas v. Weires
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Butter District Gourt.— Hon. Clifford P. Smith, Jndge. Action in equity to set aside a sheriff’s deed to plaintiff’s undivided interest in certain real property, and to quiet title in plaintiff to suck undivided interest, as against defendants Craig & Ray, wbo claim to be owners thereof under such sheriff’s deed. Decree for defendants, from which plaintiff appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
In 1886 the father of plaintiff died, leaving a will, hereafter set ont, by the terms of which plaintiff was given some interest in a tract of land in Butler county, subject to a life estate in his mother, who survived the testator. Plaintiff, who had resided in Butler county in 1818, and had since that time been a nonresident of the State, returned temporarily to Butler county to attend his father’s funeral, and there, on the 16th day of September, 1886, in Jefferson township of that county, was served with notice of an action brought before one Daggett, a justice of the peace in and for…
2Cases cited50 opinions
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- Heilman v. HeilmanIndiana Supreme Court · 1891
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