Ockerson v. Burnham & Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Montgomery Qwcuit Cov/rt. Action át law to recover for the violation of a written contract. The defendants moved the circuit court to change the venue of the action, on the ground that it was not commenced in the county of defendants’ residence, and the con-, tract, by its terms, is not to be performed in Montgomery -county. The motion was overruled, and, upon trial to the court without a jury, judgment was rendered for plaintiff. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The only objection to the j udgment appealed from urged upon our attention is based upon the ground that the circuit court erred in overruling the motion to change the venue of the case.
The written contract sued on is in the form of an agreement between defendants and plaintiff, wherein the former agreed to furnish the latter one thousand bushels of flax seed for sowing, which the plaintiff undertook to loan to farmers, and to take from them notes and contracts for the price of the seed and the delivery of the crop raised therefrom to defendants, or their agent at Eed Oak. The plaintiff…
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