Snider v. Fisk

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The decision in this specific performance case turns on whether a purported land contract was executed conditionally, and that issue involves a question of fact on which the two principals in the case testified in direct contradiction to each other. We have carefully studied the evidence to determine where the truth lies, as the case is here de novo. Janssen v. North Iowa Conference Pensions, Inc., 166 N.W.2d 901 (Iowa).

Trial courts have considerable advantage over us since they are able to watch the witnesses on the stand. We therefore lean rather heavily on their findings…