Ford v. R. Holt Easley & Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. Scott M. Ladd, Judge. Action to recover an amount alleged to be due the plaintiff as compensation for effecting a sale of real estate which was owned by the defendants. There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
In April, 1890, the defendants owned a part of two lots in Sioux City, having a front of twenty-one and three-sevenths feet, on which there was a mortgage to secure an indebtedness of four thousand, eight hundred dollars. One-half of that amount was due on the seventeenth day of the next month. They authorized the plaintiff to sell the property for four hundred dollars per front foot, the purchaser to assume two thousand, four hundred dollars of the mortgage debt, and pay three thousand dollars in cash, and the remainder in one and two years. The plaintiff was to receive, for his services in…
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