Lavalleur v. Hahn
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jasper District Court.- — ITon. Byron W. Preston, Judge. Action to recover a sum of money secured .by defendant from plaintiffs through fraud and deceit. Defendant’s defense was a general denial. At the conclusion of' the testimony, the trial court directed a verdict for defendant, 'and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Plaintiffs are residents of Jasper'county, Iowa, and defendant is a resident of the same county, and in the year 1907 was engaged in the real estate business at the town of Colfax. One L. E. Zachary, at that time a resident of Colorado, living at the city of Pueblo, owned three • hundred and twenty acres of land in Jasper county, Iowa, which plaintiffs were desirious of purchasing, and they employed defendant to purchase the same for them from Zachary. Defendant was in partnership with one Stouffer, and it seems that on the 21st day of September, 1907, this partnership, in the name of Hahn &…
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