Ingle v. Hartman
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wa/rren District Oov/rt. Tuesday, October 21. The petition alleges that defendant was plaintiff’s agent for the sale of lands in Warren county during the year 1867, and that plaintiff resided in the State of Yirginia, and relied upon defendant for information as to the location and value of the land.
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Appeal from Wa/rren District Oov/rt. Tuesday, October 21. The petition alleges that defendant was plaintiff’s agent for the sale of lands in Warren county during the year 1867, and that plaintiff resided in the State of Yirginia, and relied upon defendant for information as to the location and value of the land. That about the 1st of December, 1867, the defendant represented that said land, to wit, the N. E. one-quarter of the N. E. one-quarter of section 26, township 76, range 24, was worth about five dollars per acre, when, in fact, it was reasonably worth $40 per acre. That by these…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
The only question controverted is as to the agency of the defendant. It is clear from the evidence that he was not an agent for the sale of the land in the full sense of the term; he could not make contracts for the sale of the land which would bind plaintiff, and render him liable for a refusal to complete the same by a conveyance. The plaintiff resided in Virginia. He owned six hundred and sixty acres of land in Warren county, which he had never seen. Moses Kelly, a banker of "Washington, D. C., was plaintiff’s agent for the sale of the land, having a power of attorney, with power of…
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