75 Iowa 116 | Iowa | 1888
— The father of the plaintiffs, in his lifetime, was the owner of the property in controversy. He died intestate, in 1876, leaving a widow and eleven children surviving him. After his death, the widow ánd plaintiffs, who are unmarried, and a brother, who was also a single man, occupied the premises as a place of residence. In 1883, plaintiff John H. May and'the single brother spoken of above purchased of Elizabeth Gilbert, a married sister, her interest in the estate, and received a conveyance thereof from her and her husband. In 1884, defendant J. M. Sturdivant recovered' a judgment against Elizabeth Gilbert in one of the courts of Appanoose county. An execution issued on that judgment was levied on an undivided one-eleventh of the property as the property of Mrs. Gilbert, and the same was sold in satisfaction of the judgment; defendant Elizabeth Sturdivant, who is the wife of J. M. Sturdivant, being the purchaser ; and the sheriff subsequently executed to her a deed. Before said judgment was rendered, the single brother, who united with plaintiff John
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