Rowe v. Barnes
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buena Vista District Court. — Hon. W. B. Quarton, Judge. Action at law to recover the amount alleged to be due on a promissory note. There was a trial, in which a jury was impaneled, but - discharged before the cause was submitted to it, and a judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBobinson, J.
1 The note in suit was made by the defendants to the plaintiff on the second day of July, 1891, for the sum of three hundred dollars, payable two years after its date. The note was given for whatever interest the plaintiff might have in certain land in the state of Wisconsin. The defendant, Miranda A. Barnes, is the widow, and the plaintiff is the daughter, of Simeon F. Barnes, who died testate, seized of the land referred to. The defendant, Newell F. Douglas, is a son-in-law of Mrs. Barnes and a brother-in-law of the plaintiff. It is claimed that the will of the decedent devised the land to…
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