Duetzmann v. Kuntze
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Mills District Court. — Hon. W. R. Green, Judge. The parties hereto entered into a contract, by the terms of which plaintiff undertook to pay defendant $3,200 for the “west seventy feet of lots 415 to 419, inclusive, and the W. % of the N. % of lot 414 in Hastings, Iowa,” on which there was a hotel with furniture, fixtures, bedding, utensils, and supplies, as follows: $900 in cash and $50 every three months until paid for.
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Appeal from Mills District Court. — Hon. W. R. Green, Judge. The parties hereto entered into a contract, by the terms of which plaintiff undertook to pay defendant $3,200 for the “west seventy feet of lots 415 to 419, inclusive, and the W. % of the N. % of lot 414 in Hastings, Iowa,” on which there was a hotel with furniture, fixtures, bedding, utensils, and supplies, as follows: $900 in cash and $50 every three months until paid for. Whereupon defendant undertook to convey the same to him. He took possession November 1, 1905, and conducted the hotel until September 5, 1908, when this action…
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
The Foster House was erected at Hastings, Iowa, in 1872. The defendant became the owner of it in 1893, and it burned down July 3, 1903. Thereupon she bought an old two-story building, with one side open when detached from another,- and moved it on the foundation of the burned house. It was repaired, additions constructed, and a new roof put on, and the struc*161ture, when completed, denominated “Hotel De Hudolph.” Defendant had expected her son-in-law to conduct the house, but, as he departed for Germany, she did so, but in the fall of 1905 advertised it for sale in an Omaha paper as a “good…
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