113 Iowa 58 | Iowa | 1901
The facts necessary for the decision of this appeal are briefly as follows: One James Hulse, in 1889, died seised of the east of the west £ of the southwest and the east J of the southwest ¿, of section 8, in township 18, range 13, Poweshiek county, which premises he had owned and occupied for about 25 years. By partition proceedings, the east 47 acres of this tract were assigned to his son Lewis, and the balance to his widow, who is the defendant in this action. In 1890 defendant deeded to Lewis the west 40 of the tract (that is the east -J of the west -J of the southwest ¿) in exchange for the east of the east of the southwest -J, which belonged to him. In 1891, Lewis Hulse died, and the plaintiffs in this action own through him the 40-acre tract conveyed to him by defendant. At the time of the exchange there were improvements, consisting of a larger and smaller dwelling house, with barn, cribs, and other buildings, on the tract, which had belonged ta defendant* and near the boundary line between the tract retained bv