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· 8/29/1975

Hansen v. Chapin

Citations

  • 232 N.W.2d 506
  • 1975 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1187

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  • unrecorded assignment creating joint tenancy with wife does not provide notice
  • evidence that vendee married, set up household on the farm, and made unrecorded assignment setting up joint tenancy with wife insufficient to establish actual or constructive knowledge of wife’s interest so as to require vendors to serve notice of forfeiture on wife
  • \[O]rdinarily a wife of a purchaser who is not a party to the contract for purchase of real estate is not entitled to notice of forfeiture on any theory that her dower interest would not be cut off unless she was served.\

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Judges: Moore, Mason, Rawlings, Legrand, McCormick

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