Donner v. Redenbaugh
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Ramson District Court. Action foe specific performance. On Sunday, the twenty-first day of May, 1881, the-plaintiff and defendant, John G. Redenbaugh, entered into a written contract in tbe following words: “ This is a contract between J. G. Redenbaugb and William Donner, to show tbat J. G. Redenbaugb lias sold liis farm to William Donner for the sum of $15 per acre, also eighty acres at $12 per acre, on which contract I have received $100 to bind the same.”
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Appeal from Ramson District Court. Action foe specific performance. On Sunday, the twenty-first day of May, 1881, the-plaintiff and defendant, John G. Redenbaugh, entered into a written contract in tbe following words: “ This is a contract between J. G. Redenbaugb and William Donner, to show tbat J. G. Redenbaugb lias sold liis farm to William Donner for the sum of $15 per acre, also eighty acres at $12 per acre, on which contract I have received $100 to bind the same.” The plaintiff avers tliat be lias offered to pay, and is now ready to pay, tlie balance of the purchase-money, and has…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
— No question appears to be raised in regard to the identity of the land or sufficiency of the description. The land mentioned in the contract as Redenbaugh’s farm appears to be the northwest quarter of section twenty, township seventy-eight, range forty-two, west; and the tract of “eighty acres” appears to be the west half of the northeast quarter of the same section. It is true, the farm is described by the plaintiff in his petition, as set out in the abstract, as the southwest quarter of section twenty, but we infer from the evidence that it is a mistake of the printer. >
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