Hunt v. Gray
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Audubon District Court. — Hon. A. B. Thornell, Judge. Plaintiff brought an action on a written contract, of which the following is a copy: “$1,000. June 1, 1881. For value received, I hereby agree to pay to Mortimer Hunt, or order, the sum of one thousand dollars, with interest at eight per cent, per annum from the date of this note.
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Appeal from Audubon District Court. — Hon. A. B. Thornell, Judge. Plaintiff brought an action on a written contract, of which the following is a copy: “$1,000. June 1, 1881. For value received, I hereby agree to pay to Mortimer Hunt, or order, the sum of one thousand dollars, with interest at eight per cent, per annum from the date of this note. Said note is payable at the Audubon County Bank, of Audubon, Iowa, and shall become due and payable at the time of procuring a conveyance of the interest of the patent-title owner of the southeast quarter of section twenty-five, township eighty-two,…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
— The land described in the contract was entered by James Wisehart, in 1859, and a patent was issued to him in the following year. The treasurer’s deed was executed in February, 1871, under a sale on the first Monday of November, 1867, for taxes alleged to be due for 1861, 1865, and 1866, Charles Brennecke being the grantee. He subsequently conveyed the land to W. L. Culbertson, who, on the first of April, 1876, conveyed it to plaintiff. In 1875 Culbertson instituted a suit in the circuit court of the county against Wisehart, praying that the title be quieted in him ; and in September of that…
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