Edwards v. Foley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Audubon District Court. — Shelby Cullison, Judge. Action iu equity to rescind and cancel an executory contract for the exchange of Iowa farm land owned by the plaintiff for other land owned by the defendants, or one of them, in Saskatchewan, Canada. There was a decree for the plaintiffs, as prayed, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtWeaver, J.
The plaintiff J. M. Edwards is a farmer, and, at the time of the transaction in question, he owned a farm of 160 acres in Audubon County. The defendants, Michael Foley and W. S. Foley, were father and son, residing in the same county, and were acquaintances of the plaintiffs’. At some time prior to this date, J. M. Edwards had acquired title to a small tract of irrigated land in Utah, which property he exchanged for a half section of land in Saskatchewan. Plaintiff was unacquainted with the property so obtained, and took it without personal inspection or knowledge of its quality; but, at a…
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