Court Opinion

ID: 7100702
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 12:15:30.501338+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:13:23.955911
License: Public Domain

Seevers, J.
I. The plaintiff's procured personal service on Waclienheim, and, by publication on Mattes, a decree by default was rendered. Mattes was dead when the 'action was commenced. Shortly after the decree was rendered, the widow of Mattes obtained knowledge thereof, and in her own name, and in the names of her children as heirs at law of Mattes, intervened in the action, and in substance asked that it be retried, and her title to the property in controversy quieted. To this petition there was an answer filed, and the cause was heard on the evidence introduced by the parties.
Counsel for the appellees insist that, as the petition of intervention was not fil ed until after final decree, i t was filed too late, and that the intervenors could only have their rights adjudicated by an original petition in equity. The service on Mattes was by publication only, and the statute gives a party, or *197any person legally representing him, a right to have the action retried, if an application therefor be made within two years after-the rendition of the decree. Code, § 2877. In our opinion the proper remedy was pursued.
II. Counsel for the appellees further insist that the facts are the same as in Williamson v. Wachenheim, 58 Iowa, 277; and, as the conveyance in that case was held to be fraudulent, the same result must follow in this case. The claimed proposition is to an extent true. As to ’Wachenheim the conveyances in both cases maybe considered to be fraudulent. In the cited case, it was found that Boehler had knowledge of the fraud and participated therein. We are unable to find, after a careful examination of the evidence by each of us, that Mattes had such knowledge, or participated in the alleged fraud. We deem it unnecessary to state the .evidence, or the reasons for our conclusions, and such is not our custom.
The cause will be remanded to the district court with directions to enter a decree in accord with this opinion, or either party can have a decree in this court.,
Reversed.