Legal Opinion

Royer v. Foster

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 8, 1883PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal from PolTc Circuit Court. The plaintiff claims of the defendant $400 on account of an alleged breach of the covenants of seizin and warranty in a deed conveying eighty acres of land. The cause was tried to the court, and judgment was rendered for the defendant. The ¡plaintiff appeals. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Day, Ch. J.

I. The material facts of the case are as follows: In July, 1856, one J. W. Baird, being the owner of two hundred and eighty acres of land, including the eighty acres involved in this controversy, executed a mortgage thereon to one M. Moore, to secure the payment of $1,300. Thereafter foreclosure proceedings were instituted in the Dallas district court, and on the 20th day of October, 1857, judgment of foreclosure was entered by default. In the foreclosure proceeding, an original notice was issued in the usual form, directed to J. W. Baird, and was, on the 7th day of September,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Robertson v. YoungSupreme Court of Iowa · 1860

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Boice v. CoffeenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1912
  2. State v. CraigSupreme Court of Iowa · 1889
  3. Yancey v. TatlockSupreme Court of Iowa · 1895
  4. Jones v. LevisSupreme Court of Iowa · 1949
  5. Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. v. ThornburgSupreme Court of Iowa · 1933

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