Adams v. Holden
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Des Homes District Court. — Hon. W. S. Withrow, Judge. Suit in equity to1 enforce a trust in certain real estate in favor of plaintiff, to redeemj, and for conveyance of the title thereto1. The trial court sustained a demurrer to plaintiff’s reply, and on the hearing dismissed the petition. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
*571 2 3 *56On December 24,187.3, plaintiff’s grantor, one O. C. P. Holden, executed to O. N. Holden a deed for about four thousand acres of land situated in Des Moines county, Iowa; the grantee assuming mortgages and liens on the property amounting to ten thousand dollars. This deed, while absolute in form, was intended as security to save the grantee harmless because of his having indorsed notes for his grantor to an amount exceeding thirty-one thousand dollars. Certain notes, bonds, and stocks were also deposited with O. N. Holden as additional security; and from these collaterals, it is claimed,…
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