Alexander v. Jones
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Bremer Circuit Court. Action in equity for specific performance and for other relief. The court dismissed the plaintiff’s petition, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
The controversy in this case grows out of a transaction pertaining to the sale of certain land in Rutler county, belonging to the plaintiff. The contract of which lie asks the court to decree a specific performance is a contract of sale to the defendants, Clark Eairfield and James W. Phillips, made to them by the plaintiff through the defendant, John Palmer, as his agent.
The plaintiff asks for a decree for the purchase-money against the purchasers, Eairfield and Phillips, and, if this should be denied him, he asks that certain conveyances be set aside, to-wit: a deed from himself and wife to…
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