State v. Ritchie

On October 18, 1917, L. S. Wentz, then a resident of Dickinson County, Iowa, was the owner of a tract of land in Harrison County, Iowa, alleged to contain 295 acres. One Hagerty, who figures in the ease, ivas a real estate agent at Spencer, in Clay County, and the defendants Ritchie, Welch, and Farrar were engaged in like business at Sioux City. There is evidence tending to show that, in the summer of 1917, Wentz listed his land with Hagerty, with authority to sell it at $30 per acre cash, or to effect a trade or exchange for other property at an estimate of $35 per acre. Thereafter, there…