Dunn v. Zwilling Bros.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hardin District Court. — Hon. S. M. Weaver, Judge. Action in equity for the specific performance of an alleged agreement to convey real estate, for an accounting, and for general equitable relief. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and, the plaintiff refusing to plead further, judgment was rendered in favor of the defendants for costs. The plaintiff appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
1 *2362 *234The material facts stated in the petition and admitted in the demurrer are substantially as follows: In June, 1887, the plaintiff owned in fee simple four hundred acres of land in ' Hardin county. He was indebted to Peter Bin-ford in the sum of about three thousand five hundred dollars, to Zwilling Bros, in the further sum of one thousand six hundred dollars, and to the Iowa Loan & Trust Company for about five hundred dollars. The amount due Binford was secured by a mortgage on two hundred and forty acres of the land, and that to Zwilling Bros, was secured by a mortgage on eighty acres of…
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