[DOWNLOAD] "Layton v. Tucker" by Supreme Court Of Iowa. " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Layton v. Tucker
- Author : Supreme Court Of Iowa.
- Release Date : January 18, 1946
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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This appeal involves one hundred fifteen acres of farm land which plaintiffs and defendant Lee W. Tucker, appellants herein, claim under the residuary clause of the will of Eva M. Cagley, deceased. Defendant-appellees Burr Shipley, Doris Fallgatter, Robert Cagley, and Gladys Lord claim said land under another clause of the same will. Other appellees are merely nominal parties to this appeal and for convenience the four persons last-above named will be referred to herein as though they were the only appellees. Testatrix Eva M. Cagley was the widow of John Cagley. Clare Cagley was their only surviving child or issue. John Cagley died in 1920. His estate consisted of the one-hundred-fifteen-acre ""old home farm"" here involved and about $13,000 in personalty. Under his will the daughter Clare took $5,000 and testatrix received a life estate in the farm and the entire remainder of John Cagley's estate. Clare died intestate and without issue in 1924 and her entire estate, amounting to about $5,000 passed to her husband, appellant Lee W. Tucker. Testatrix Eva M. Cagley died in 1943. Her estate consisted of the one-hundred-fifteen-acre tract in question, appraised with an adjoining forty-acre tract at $11,000, and other real estate and personal property appraised at about $47,000. Her will, executed in 1939, provides in part as follows: