Larson v. Williams
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Calhoun District Court. — Hon. Charles D. Goldsmith, Judge. Action in equity, to cancel a certain judgment, and to restrain the enforcement thereof. Decree was entered in favor of the plaintiff. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, C. J.
*1111 *110I. The judgment in question was rendered in the district court in and for Calhoun county on the seventeenth day of December, 1890, in *111an action wherein these defendants were plaintiffs and Peter Larson and his wife, this plaintiff, were defendants. Plaintiffs in that action stated in their petition, as their cause of action, in substance, as follows: That on January 11, 1889, they entered into an oral contract “with the defendant to build a dwelling house” upon real estate described; that in pursuance of said contract they built said dwelling “for defendant,” as specified in their statement…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McConkey v. LambSupreme Court of Iowa · 1887
3Cited by19 opinions
- Graves v. GravesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1906
- Shaw v. AddisonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1945
- Tucker v. StewartSupreme Court of Iowa · 1903
- Wood v. WoodSupreme Court of Iowa · 1907
- Ruppin v. McLachlanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1904
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