Behrens v. Baldenecker’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 14 state decisions

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1. ““Statement “To Florence L. Baldenecker, Des Moines, Iowa, and Helen L. Tolby Tolleson, Arizona. “This is to certify that Mary L. Moody-Hanson had an interest in the (description) in the amount of Fifty eight hundred and fifty dollars ($5850.00), and “That the undersigned will pay a one third (%) of said amount to each of the above named parties upon the sale of said property, less one half (V2) of the loss, if any, when sale is made of the property in question, each to share a one half (V2) of said one half (V2) loss if any. “Dated this 30th day of June A.D. 1947.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Hanson's Estate · Baldenecker v. Behrens

2. “Throughout the probate proceedings and under the testimony in this case accepted by the trial court, plaintiff acknowledged that she was obligated to her mother because of this advance by her mother when the property was purchased. True, this obligation was described at places in the probate proceedings as being an interest in the real property, but as we interpret the final decree the property distributed by the county court was one-third to each of these defendants in $5,750 to be derived from the sale of this property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Hanson's Estate

3. “Amount due from Sylvia May Behrens by reason of the interest which Mary L. Hanson had in (description) and subject to deed with a survivorship clause to Sylvia May Behrens, amounting to $5750.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Hanson's Estate