Voss v. Chamberlain
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Crawford District Court.— Hon. Z. A. Church, Judge. Action for damages for the conversion of certain promissory notes. On a trial to the court without a jury judgment was rendered for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
McClain, J.—
In April, 1908, one H.' S. Green, a banker at Dow City, Iowa, acting as agent for the defendants, effected a sale for them of a tract of land in Nebraska, receiving in payment a small sum in cash and certain promissory notes which were made payable to “ E. N. Chamberlain, Amos Weatherbee, and H. S. Green, or order.” Green appropriated the cash payment and the proceeds of the first of the notes to become due in point of time which he collected to the payment of his commission, and turned over the other notes, of the face value of $4,350, to the defendant Chamberlain as the property…
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