Chapel v. Clapp
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wapello District Court. Monday, July 25. Action in chancery to subject certain lands to a judgment against Adaline K. Clapp, one of the defendants, and in favor of plaintiffs. Decree for plaintiffs. The defendants appeal. The facts of the case are found in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
About the year 1839, one of the defendants, Mrs. Adaline K. Clapp, purchased of one Gossage lands amounting to about 349 acres, receiving from him a deed for about 77 acres thereof, and an obligation to convey the *192rest upon payment of the remainder' of the purchase money. The title of the lands, for which a deed was not executed, was in McClintock and Mrs. Given, and Gos-sage held their obligation to convey upon the payment of an amount of the purchase-money which he owed them upon the lands. Mrs. Clapp executed her notes to Gossage, one for $2,000, and the other for $824.73, the sum due on…
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