Baumhover v. Gerken

The plaintiff and appellee Frank Baum-hover was the owner of a 60-acre farm in Carroll County, situated a mile from the city of Carroll, upon which he had erected a dwelling at an expense of $7,500. The house wras not entirely finished. There was a mortgage on the place for $10,000. The property for which he traded the Carroll County farm ivas a half section of land in Monona County, belonging to the appellant Gerken. There was no dwelling on it. It wras low, flat land, with no tiling, and could not be successfully farmed more than about two years in five, on the average. There were first…