Ross v. Bolte
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Bremer District Court. — Hon. J. F. Clyde, Judge. Action to recover damages for a conspiracy between defendants to defraud plaintiffs out of their farm.
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Appeal from Bremer District Court. — Hon. J. F. Clyde, Judge. Action to recover damages for a conspiracy between defendants to defraud plaintiffs out of their farm. It is alleged that in negotiations leading to an exchange of farms defendants were guilty of fraud and misrepresentations regarding the land which plaintiff was to and did receive, resulting in damage to him in the sum of $3,160. Defendants denied the conspiracy and fraud charged, and pleaded some further defenses which will be noticed in the body of the opinion. The case was tried to a jury, resulting in a verdict and judgment…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Defendant Zenft was employed by plaintiff Ross to sell one hundred and twenty acres of land in Bremer county, and about December 20, 1909, he (Zenft) sent word to plaintiff to come to Oelwein, in Fayette county. Pursuant to this request he went to Oelwein and there met Zenft and his co-defendant Bolte. Zenft told plaintiff that Bolte had some lots and buildings at the town of Readlyn, which he desired to exchange for plaintiff’s land. Ross had fixed the price on his land at $65 per acre, or $7,800 in all, and, as there was a mortgage of $5,000, his equity in the land was considered worth…
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