McCann v. Clark
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — IloN. Lawrence De Gkapf, Judge. ActioN at law upon a contract for the exchange of a stock of merchandise for a tract of land. The material facts are sufficiently: stated in the opinion. At the close of the testimony the court directed a verdict for all of the defendants, and from such order and the judgment entered thereon the plaintiff appeals. —
1Opinion of the CourtWeaveR, J.
Plaintiff alleges that, in the spring of the year, 1911, he was the owner of a stock of merchandise of the value of $7,500 at the town of Cummings, Iowa, and at the same time the defendants Barnes were in business as real estate agents and brokers at Des Moines, Iowa, and had associated with them in some capacity the defendant Northrup. He further avers that the defendants Barnes and Northrup represented to him that they were agents of the defendant Clark, who was the owner of eighty acres of land in Jasper county, which he desired to exchange for merchandise, and thereby induced him to go…
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