Dorr v. Cory
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Gourb. — How. T. E. SteveNSon, Judge. ActxoN at law on contracts in writing for the purchase of interests in real estate. A jury was impaneled, but when the evidence was fully submitted a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of four thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twenty cents was returned by direction of the court, and judgment was rendered on the verdict. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
KobinsoN, O. J.
*7271 *726— On the fourteenth day of January, 1890, the plaintiff, then being the owner of all the lots and blocks included in the plat of West End, an addition to the city of Des MAines, conveyed all of that property, excepting one block, to J. H. Snoke, as trustee for a partnership known as thel West End Syndicate.1 The partnership was 'composed of A. W. 0. Weeks, K.. G-. Scott, and J. N. Neiman; and the conveyance was made in fulfillment of prior contracts. To secure a part of the purchase price, Snoke, as trustee for the *727partnership, made and delivered to the plaintiff notes to the…
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