Harris v. Wamsley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Page Circuit Court. On the 8th day of August, 1874, the plaintiff sold and conveyed to the defendant eighty acres of land, upon which plaintiff .resided with his family, consisting of seven minor children. ■ On the 4th of September following, the plaintiff instituted this action to set aside the conveyance, and tendered to: defendant the property and notes which he had received as consideration for the transfer.
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Appeal from Page Circuit Court. On the 8th day of August, 1874, the plaintiff sold and conveyed to the defendant eighty acres of land, upon which plaintiff .resided with his family, consisting of seven minor children. ■ On the 4th of September following, the plaintiff instituted this action to set aside the conveyance, and tendered to: defendant the property and notes which he had received as consideration for the transfer. The petition alleges: “Thaf prior to the date aforesaid, and during the period of five or six years last past, your petitioner has, from age, being now-above fifty-four…
1Opinion of the Court
Day, J. —
I. The evidence, covering one hundred pages of printed abstract, is too voluminous to examine in detail, and if such a course were practicable, it would result in no benefit. The evidence is very conflicting, and, as is usual in such cases, absolute certainty that any' conclusion’ is necessarily right, and the opposite one wrong, is not attainable.
*673We have examined the entire testimony with a degree of care and attention commensurate with the importance of the' question involved. Whilst we may not be able to demonstrate, the correctness of our conclusion, for the question with which…
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