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SKOOG v. FREDELL

No. 68682.

332 N.W.2d 333 (1983)

Mary Ann SKOOG, Appellant, v. Lester FREDELL, Gladys Fredell, Maxine Davis, and John Davis, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack W. Peters and John M. French of Stuart, Tinley, Peters, Thorn, Smits & Sens, Council Bluffs, for appellant.

John K. Petersen, Red Oak, for appellees.

Considered by UHLENHOPP, P.J., HARRIS, McGIVERIN, and CARTER, JJ., and LeGRAND, Senior Judge.

HARRIS, Justice.

In Elliott v. Hiddleson, 303 N.W.2d 140, 144-45 (Iowa 1981), we abandoned the "stranger to the adoption rule," and recognized a presumption that strangers to an adoption do not differentiate between natural and adopted children unless they manifest a contrary intent. The question here is whether such a contrary intent was manifested by a grantor who deeded property to his granddaughter for life, with remainder...

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