Torbert v. Hayden
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dubuque District Court. On the third day of March, A. D., 1858, the plaintiff in this, action sold and conveyed to the firm of Shelly & Grosvonor of the city of Dubuque, two thousand and eighty acres of land situated in the State of Wisconsin, for the consideration of four thousand one hundred and sixty dollars, and took therefor their two promissory notes, each for the sum of $2,080, one payable in six, the other in twelve months after date.
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Appeal from Dubuque District Court. On the third day of March, A. D., 1858, the plaintiff in this, action sold and conveyed to the firm of Shelly & Grosvonor of the city of Dubuque, two thousand and eighty acres of land situated in the State of Wisconsin, for the consideration of four thousand one hundred and sixty dollars, and took therefor their two promissory notes, each for the sum of $2,080, one payable in six, the other in twelve months after date. To secure the payment of these notes, the said Shelly & Grosvenor executed a chattel mortgage on their stock of goods, in the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtLowe, C. J.
This case seems to have turned chiefly upon a few propositions of law laid down by the court to the jury; to understand which more fully it may be well to state some additional facts disclosed on the evidence and admitted by the parties as making up a part of the history of this case.. First. That all the land aforesaid sold and conveyed by plaintiff to Shelley & Grosvenor except one hundred and twenty acres, had been sold and re-conveyed by them to their creditors in payment of their liabilities at the rate of three dollars and a half to five dollars per acre.
Second. That the stock of goods…
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