Fred Brown & Co. v. Cash
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Johnson District Court. — Hon. R. P. Howell, Judge. Action by plaintiffs for an agreed share in the profits of a real estate transaction. The executors of the estate who conveyed the land intervened, claiming said profits. Judgment was entered dismissing the petition of intervention, and in favor of plaintiffs for one-third of the profits realized in the transaction. The defendant and interveners appeal. —
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, C. J.
Mary E. Mclntire, in her lifetime, owned three hundred and twenty acres of land in Harrison county, and upon her demise title passed to the executors of her estate, Fred H. Haskell and Carrie R. Hempstead. The latter resided at Mendota, 111., and the former had moved from that place to California. N. J. Demerath, their attorney, lived at Kewanee, 111., and during the time in question attended to the business of the estate, being interested as one-fourth owner under the will if his deceased wife.
Fred Brown & Co., a copartnership, composed of Fred Brown and M. J. Fitzgibbons, were engaged in…
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