Kutchera v. Graft
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court.- — F. 0. Ellison, Judge. Action to recover damages against defendant landlord, based on fraudulent concealment of hog cholera infection of the leased premises, from which the tenant claims his hogs contracted cholera and died. There was a directed verdict for defendant, and judgment thereon against plaintiff for costs. Plaintiff appeals. Pacts appear in the opinion. —
1Opinion of the CourtArthuR, J.
Defendant W. S. Graft owned a farm, located about a mile southwest of Central City, in Linn County, Iowa. On September 26, 1918, plaintiff leased the farm for the period beginning March 1, 1919, and ending March 1, 1921, and, on or about March 1, 1919, moved from North English, where he had been living, to the farm, and took with him 11 brood sows and 28 shoats and pigs. The hogs were shipped in one car. After plaintiff moved on the Graft farm, the sows farrowed 66 pigs. On arrival at the farm, the hogs were placed in a small lot near the barn, and kept there three or four days, and then…
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