Baxter, Reed & Co. v. Hecht
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Ida District Court. — Hon. Z. A. Church, Judge. Suit in equity to subject certain land, the legal title to which, is in the name of the defendant, Mary P. Hecht, to the payment of a judgment against the defendant John Hecht. There was a decree for the plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, C. J.
The defendants are husband and wife. For a number of years the husband was the owner of a farm of two hundred and forty acres in Ida county. In June, 1892, he entered into a written contract by which he agreed to sell and convey the *532farm to one Lohff. The purchaser paid fifty dollars at that time, and agreed to pay the whole of the purchase money by the first day of March, 1898. The defendant, Mary P. Hecht, joined with her said husband in the written contract, and signed her name thereto; and a deed was executed by the defendants on the thirtieth day of December, 1892, but it was not…
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