Hanson v. Kline
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Calhoun District Court.— IIoN. E. M. Powers, Judge. AgtioN at law to recover damages arising out of false representations in connection with an exchange of properties. The defendants, additional to Kline, are W. E. Gray and J. E. Gray, and at the time in question all the parties lived in Kockwell City, Calhoun county.
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Appeal from Calhoun District Court.— IIoN. E. M. Powers, Judge. AgtioN at law to recover damages arising out of false representations in connection with an exchange of properties. The defendants, additional to Kline, are W. E. Gray and J. E. Gray, and at the time in question all the parties lived in Kockwell City, Calhoun county. The petition alleges that in July, 1904, plaintiff was the owner of a stock of merchandise in Kockwell City, valued by him 'at $2,000, which he was induced by the defendants Gray to trade to the defendant Kline for a farm of one hundred and sixty acres situated in…
1Opinion of the CourtBishop, J.
A somewhat extended statement of the evidence pro and con seems to be necessary to an understanding of the questions made by the appeal.
W. E» Gray is a lawyer, and his son, J. E. Gray, a( dealer in real estate. The latter, having in his hands for disposition the Nebraska farm owned by Kline, approached plaintiff and proposed a trade of properties. Plaintiff testified that in the course of the negotiation, Gray represented the land to be a level tract, good farm land, as good as any in Calhoun county, in a good neighborhood, with fifty acres broke and fifty acres under fence, with a small…
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