Valentine v. Read

In this suit the plaintiffs-appellants, Ruth Valentine and Richard Valentine, wife and husband, seek to cancel and set aside a certain written instrument conveying real estate in Harrison county, Iowa, to the defendants-appellees, James Read and Mattie Frazier. The basis for the relief prayed is fraud. Such fraud, the appellants contend,' was perpetrated upon them by the appellees’ attorney, Mr. Paul Roadifer, of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Because of that fraud, the appellants declare they executed the conveyance aforesaid. Without the fraud, the appellants insist they would not have executed the…