Lapp v. Loufek

JOYCE, District Judge.

This is an action for Declaratory Judgment under 28 U.S.C. § 2201 seeking a declaration of rights arising out of a certain contract. A short statement of the business relationships of the parties is necessary to an understanding of the claims asserted in the case.

Plaintiff’s deceased husband, William H. Lapp, was during the 1920’s an extension professor at Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa, and was later employed by Live Poultry Transit Company in Chicago, Illinois, as a lecturer and supervisor in connection with the transportation of poultry and livestock.…