Clark v. Maurer
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. George W. Wakeeield, Judge. Action for specific performance of contract for sale of lands. Judgment for the defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGranger, J.
On the sixteenth day of February, 1887, the defendant J. G. Maurer made to the plaintiff a written contract, by the terms of which he agreed to make to the plaintiff a deed of twenty acres of land in Woodbury county, if certain specified payments should be first made. No question is made as to payments, but the defendant J. G. Maurer seeks to avoid the decree for specific performance against him sought in this case, on the ground of alleged fraud by plaintiff in obtaining the contract. The land in controversy is situated about three miles from the business center of Sioux City. The land was…
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