106 Iowa 303 | Iowa | 1898
The following diagram presented by appellees’ counsel will better show the relation of the different persons, and the
EXHIBIT E.
From this it will be seen that appellees inherit through their father, Anders Meier, brother of Elling Meier, father of decedent, all citizens of the United States. Now, although
Appellants’ contention is not that they take mediately through their mother, Ingeborg Hogfoss, but, that, under said section 2457 of the Code of 1873, they take immediately from the decedent. Said section is as follows: “If both parents be dead, the portion which would have fallen to their share by the .above rules, shall be disposed of in the same manner as if they had outlived the intestate and died in the possession and ownership of the portion thus falling to their share, and so on (through ascending ancestors and their issue.” Appellants cite Lash v. Lash, 57 Iowa, 88, wherein it is said: “Whatever the plaintiff or any other heir of the intestate takes, he takes directly from the intestate, and not otherwise. Nothing, in fact, intervenes between the death of the intestate and the transmission of his estate to his heirs. The survivorship of