Corbett v. Berryhill
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Johnson District Court. Friday, July 22. Action in chancery. Decree for plaintiff in accordance with the prayer of the petition. Defendant appeals. The facts of the case are fully set out in the opinion. The same case was before this court upon questions other than those now determined. See 27 Iowa, 584.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
On the first day of July, 1866, Isaac L. Allen by his attorney in fact, R. D. Stephens, executed a contract to sell and convey to defendants, Berryhill and Downey, his interest in certain mining property or claims in the territory of Montana. The following recitations are in the contract, viz.: That Allen 1 ‘ has this day agreed to sell to [the parties above named], all the 'interest in the property hereinafter described, which was conveyed to the said Allen by Charles H. Berryhill, as trustee, by deed dated 26th day of January 1866, and recorded on pages 159 and 160, book 5, records of…
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