Beach v. Beach
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lee District Court. — Hon. H. Bank, Jr., Judge. Action for deceit, brought by plaintiff against defendant, who is her mother-in-law, in which she claimed that she was induced to enter into a marriage with defendant’s son by reason of certain false and fraudulent representations regarding the ownership of certain land.
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Appeal from Lee District Court. — Hon. H. Bank, Jr., Judge. Action for deceit, brought by plaintiff against defendant, who is her mother-in-law, in which she claimed that she was induced to enter into a marriage with defendant’s son by reason of certain false and fraudulent representations regarding the ownership of certain land. Defendant pleaded a general denial, and on the issues so joined the case was tried to a jury, resulting in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $1,600, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Deemer, J.-
This is a novel and unusual action, and the petition upon which it was tried contains so succinct a statement of plaintiff’s claim that we here quote from it as follows:
That she is the wife of August Beach, and was married to him about . . . 1907; that August Beach, her husband, had lived with defendant Rosa Beach, and her husband, now deceased, before their marriage, and was living with his mother on the farm at the time of the marriage between plaintiff and August Beach; that the defendant, Rosa Beach, was solicitous to have her son, August Beach, marry, and in the name of her…
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