King v. Hart
Supreme Court of Iowa
'Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. F. R. Gay-nob, Judge. Plaintiee for cause of action states that on February 22, 1896, the defendant owned, by blank assignment, two promissory notes, of three hundred dollars each, on Lewis Lamkin, secured by mortgage on certain forty and twenty acre tracts of land in Dakota county, Nebraska; that the ■defendant showed to plaintiff a forty-acre tract as -being ■said land, and knowingly and falsely represented to plaintiff that it…
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'Appeal from Woodbury District Court. — Hon. F. R. Gay-nob, Judge. Plaintiee for cause of action states that on February 22, 1896, the defendant owned, by blank assignment, two promissory notes, of three hundred dollars each, on Lewis Lamkin, secured by mortgage on certain forty and twenty acre tracts of land in Dakota county, Nebraska; that the ■defendant showed to plaintiff a forty-acre tract as -being ■said land, and knowingly and falsely represented to plaintiff that it was the forty acres covered by said mortgage; that, relying thereon, plaintiff purchased said notes and mortgage, and…
1Opinion of the CourtGiven, J.
I. Appellant’s complaint is that the amount allowed him by the verdict, is too small. It is manifest from the verdict that the jury found that the defendant was guilty of the fraud charged, and in this they are fully sustained by the evidence. It is also manifest from the evidence that, if plaintiff is entitled to recover in any sum, he is entitled to more than the amount of the verdict. Defendant and his agent represented to plaintiff that the land covered by the mortgage was worth thirty dollars per acre, including the house upon it; that it was “well up> and clean ■away from the river, and…
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