Cress v. Ivens
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. John F. Oliver, Judge. Action at law to recover the amount of certain commissions received by the defendants in alleged fraud of plaintiff’s assignors. Certain affirmative defenses were pleaded by the defendants. Two of these are presented on this appeal. There was a judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. The defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
The plaintiff, as assignee of five assignors, brought this action upon the five separate causes of action of his assignors, respectively. The original transaction involved is the same as that involved in Cress v. Ivens et al., 155 Iowa, 17. The claim on the part of the plaintiff is that the defendants, acting together, induced ten others to join them' in the purchase of a large tract of land, consisting of 14,883 acres, in Minnesota, near the city of Duluth, at a stated price of $5.25 per acre. The proposed purchase was made. Each of such ten persons took a one-fifteenth interest in the…
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