Legal Opinion
Richards v. Grinnell
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided March 19, 1884PublishedCited by 45 opinions
Appeal from, Poweshieh Ci/roxdt Court. This is an action in equity for an accounting, and' the settlement of an alleged partnership, between the plaintiff and the defendant. There was a demurrer to the petition, which was sustained, and the plaintiff appeals. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Rothrock, Ch. J.
I. As the cause involves the sufficiency of the averments of the petition to maintain an action, it is necessary that a copy of the petition be set out in the opinion. It is as follows:
“ 1st. The plaintiff represents that, on or about December 18, 1869, the defendant, accompanied by Julius A. Eeed, who was a mutual acquaintance of plaintiff and defendant, came to plaintiff at Ottumwa, Iowa, and then and there represented to plaintiff that a certain railroad, namely, ‘The Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railway,’ was then being projected through part of the state of Kansas,…
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