Renwick v. Bancroft
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Howard Ovremt Oowrt. This is fn action in equity, for the specific performance of an alleged verbal contract for the purchase of eighty acres of land; there was a trial upon written evidence, and a decree for the plaintiff. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtEothbock, J.
The land in controversy was the property of the children and heirs of John H. Cutler, deceased. It was wild and uncultivated prairie' situated in Howard county in this State. The owners, being some five or six in number, were non-residents of the State. One of them, Lucy F. Whitney, with her husband, W. B. Whitney, resided in Chicago, Illinois. Some of the others, and possibly all of them, resided in the State of New Hampshire. The plaintiff claims that he made the purchase of the land through J. Barker, a real estate agent at Creseo, Iowa, for $1050, and that in pursuance of his purchase he…
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