Clark v. Van Loon
Supreme Court of Iowa
'Appeal from Louisa District Gourt. — Hon. A. R. Dewey, Judge. ActioN at law to recover the value of an interest alleged to have been owned by .the plaintiff in land conveyed by the defendant to a third person. When the evidence had been submitted, a motion for a verdict for the defendant was sustained, and a verdict for her was returned by direction of the court. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Robinson, O. J.
— The petition alleges that on the twentieth day of August, 1880, the plaintiff was the owner of a tract of eighty acres of land, which is described, but that the record title thereto was held by his brother, J. B. Clark; that on the date specified, the defendant held two notes which the plaintiff had indorsed, and the payment of which he had guarantied; that, for the purpose of securing the payment of the note, the plaintiff and the defendant agreed with each other that the plaintiff should cause J. B. Clark and his wife to convey the land to the defendant, to be held by her…
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