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Complex Marion County land suit over 848 acres in 1910
In the District Court of Iowa at Marion County during the April 1910 term, plaintiffs W LeGrand Jr and W N LeGrand file a petition seeking title to large parcels described as the Southeast quarter of the Southwest quarter Section 14 and multiple adjoining tracts in Sections 22 and 27, Township 77 North Range 20 West, with extensive chain of title history from original entry to tax deeds. The petition alleges others claim rights to the described real estate and details a lengthy lineage of transfers, including several parties named Byrd Harp Clark Reed Mathews Rhodes Huff and others, with mentions of Exhibits A-1 and A-2 and Exhibit B. The document notes conveyances, patent and tax deed history, and defects in description culminating in a continuing continuation on the seventh page.