Cahail v. Langman

On September 5, 1924, the appellee and the appellants entered- into a written contract, providing for a sale by the appellants to the appellee of real estate described therein as follows:

"A tract described as beginning at a point on the east line of Fair Avenue as shown on the plat of James Grant’s Subdivision, recorded in Book 30 of Town -Lot Deeds-, page 466, in the office of the recorder of Scott County, Iowa, 240 feet south of the north line of Sec. 23, in Twp. 78 N., Rng. 3 east of the 5th P. M. [ thence running south along said east line of Fair. Avenue 40 feet; thence east 140 feet…