Bondurant v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Poll District Gourt. Stamps : fraud : elements and essentials of, etc.— This action is brought upon the following written contract, entered into by the parties, viz.: “Article of agreement made and entered into this 25th day of August, 1864, between A. C. Bondurant and George Crawford, both of Polk county, Iowa, witnésseth: That the said Bondurant agrees to sell to the said Crawford one hundred acres of the corn now on the farm of the said Bondurant, seventy…
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Appeal from Poll District Gourt. Stamps : fraud : elements and essentials of, etc.— This action is brought upon the following written contract, entered into by the parties, viz.: “Article of agreement made and entered into this 25th day of August, 1864, between A. C. Bondurant and George Crawford, both of Polk county, Iowa, witnésseth: That the said Bondurant agrees to sell to the said Crawford one hundred acres of the corn now on the farm of the said Bondurant, seventy acres of the com to be put into shocks, in good condition, and thirty acres standing on the stalks, and give the use of two…
1Opinion of the CourtDillon, J.
1. Contract stamps. I. The contract was executed in duplicate, each party retaining one. That kept by the defendant : was alleged in the petition to have been duly stamped, and defendant was notified to produce it on trial. Ah admitted copy was attached to the petition. Defendant failed to produce the stamped original, which was in his possession. The plaintiff, on the trial, offered to read the copy attached to his petition, to which the defendant objected, ou the ground that plaintiff had one of the originals, and it was not stamped. The court overruled the objection, deciding that, if one…
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