Grove v. Bush
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cerro Gordo District Cowrt. — Hon. J. O. Sherwin, Judge. Action in equity to enforce performance of an alleged agreement to compromise a judgment or to obtain a new trial. After a bearing upon tbe merits, judgment was rendered in favor of defendant. Tbe plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
On tbe eighteenth day of December, 1874, tbe plaintiff gave to Gammon & Deering bis promissory note for tbe sum of ninety-three dollars and forty-nine cents, with interest thereon at ten per cent, per annum payable on tbe first day of November, 1876. Tbe note recited that it. was given for a Marsh harvester. In tbe year 1886 tbe defendant, Bush, as assignee of tbe note, brought action upon it in tbe dis*96trictcourt of Cerro Gordo county. The plaintiff, G-rove, appeared in the action, and filed an answer in March, 1887. Nothing further seems to have been done in the case until the next October.…
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