Duntz v. Ames Cemetery Ass'n
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Story District Court. — E. M. McCall, Judge. Aotion in equity for judgment for an unpaid balance of the purchase price of a land contract, and for decree of foreclosure on said contract. The trial court found in favor of the plaintiff and the defendant city of Ames appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDe Graff, J.
The defendant Ames Cemetery Association is a corporation organized not for pecuniary profit. It maintained and operated a cemetery in the city of Ames, Iowa. On August 27, 1914 the association entered into a written contract with C. A. Duntz to purchase from him for cemetery purposes a certain tract of land adjoining the old cemetery for the sum of $2,000. It paid to Duntz $500 on the execution of the contract and agreed to pay the balance with interest at 6 per cent on or before the 1st day of September, 1919.
The Cemetery Association thereafter sold and conveyed all of its property including…
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