Kettering v. Eastlack
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Linn District Court.— TIon. J. H. Preston, Judge. Action for specific performance of a contract to convey land. There was a decree for the plaintiff, and defendants appeal.—
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, C. J.
The contract on which plaintiff relies was executed on September 21, 1903, and by its terms obligated the plaintiff to convey to the defendants one hundred and twenty acres of land in Cedar county, Iowa, in exchange for one hundred and sixty acres of land in South Dakota and $7,100 in cash. A portion of the plaintiff’s land constituted his homestead, and subsequently to the mutual execution and delivery of duplicates of the contract, neither of which was signed by plaintiff’s wife, and before the 15th day of March, which was the day on which the contract was to be performed, plaintiff’s wife…
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