Ballou v. Lucas
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Marshall District Oov/rt. Action in chancery to rescind a sale and conveyance of forty acres of land in Marshall county on account of fraudulent representations as to the title made by defendant to plaintiff. There was a decree granting the relief prayed for in the petition; defendant appeals. After the cause was brought to this court the death of Lucas was suggested and his administratrix was substituted as defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
I. The petition alleges that defendant, for the purpose of defrauding plaintiff, represented to him that defendant was the absolute owner, under a good and perfect title, of the land involved in this suit; that plaintiff, relying upon defendant’s representations, as to his title to the land, entered into a contract with defendant for its purchase, and in pursuance thereof and in payment for the land, conveyed to defendant a lot in the city of Marshalltown and paid him $200.00 in money, and received from defendant a quit-claim deed for the land, and that defendant had no right, title or *23interes…
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