MARTIN v. BEATTY

No. 50649.

115 N.W.2d 706 (1962)

Fred A. MARTIN, Appellant, v. Harry BEATTY, Vera Garber, Blanche Bensch, Gertrude Johnson, Floyd Beatty, and Washington County, Iowa, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Estella Harmel Wilkins, Peoria, Ill., and Cook & Drake, Glenwood, for appellant.

Livingston, Day & Meeker, Washington, for appellees.


LARSON, Justice.

While this is a real estate partition suit brought by plaintiff, one of the beneficiaries under his grandfather's will, against the other benefited grandchildren, the nub of the controversy is whether the testamentary beneficiaries took interests in the property per capita, as the trial court held, or per stirpes.

The relevant facts are not in serious dispute. S. C. Story died testate on April 20, 1899, at age 85. His wife, Emma Story, died...

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