Worthington v. Oak & Highland Park Improvement Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. Thomas E. Stevenson, Judge. The appeal in this case involves the validity of a contract alleged to have been made by Caroline E. Byers with L. M. Mann, receiver of the Highland Park Improvement Company, by which contract she alleges she was employed as a teacher by said receiver, and wrongfully discharged from said employment, in violation of said contract.
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Appeal from Polk District Court. — Hon. Thomas E. Stevenson, Judge. The appeal in this case involves the validity of a contract alleged to have been made by Caroline E. Byers with L. M. Mann, receiver of the Highland Park Improvement Company, by which contract she alleges she was employed as a teacher by said receiver, and wrongfully discharged from said employment, in violation of said contract. There was a full hearing before the court, and it was found that the intervener was entitled to recover thirty dollars, which sum was ordered to be paid from the funds in the hands of the receiver.…
1Opinion of the CourtBothrock, C. J.
1 *422 *40I. The petition in the main action was filed on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1893, by Worthington and Dissmore, trustees, to foreclose a trust deed executed by the defendant, the Oak & Highland Park Improvement Company, to secure payment of certain negotiable bonds. The appointment of a receiver was demanded to take possession of the property of the corporation, including the Highland Park College, owned and operated by the improvement company. On the same day that the petition was filed, the following order was made by the court: “And now, this cause coming on to be heard upon the…
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