Sypher v. Savery
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pollc District Cottrt. Action in Chancery. There was a decree rendered in tbe District, Court, granting tbe relief prayed for in plaintiff’s petition. Defendants appeal. The facts of tbe case fully appear in .the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
On the 9th day of May, 1856, S. Gr. Keene, Jonathan Lyon, White & Hervey, with many other citizens of Des Moines, (then called Fort Des Moines,) 'entered into a. written agreement, mutually binding themselves to loan the several sums of money set opposite to their respective names," for the purpose of being used in erecting and fux*nishing a spacious hotel to be kept in the town. For the purpose of carrying out the object of the parties to the instrument, which was to aid by a loan the erection of a hotel of the chax*acter coxxtemplated, and thereby to induce a proper person to undertake the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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