Furst v. Tweed
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Guthrie District Court. — How. J. H. HeN-DEES0N, Judge. This is a suit in equity for the specific performance of an alleged contract for the sale of two hundred and forty acres of land. There was a decree for the defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtKothrock, J.
The defendant is a resident of the state of Ohio, and was the owner of the land in controversy. The plaintiff is a resident of Guthrie county, where the property is situated. The land is fenced for a pasture, but has no other improvements. One O. A. Berry is a real estate agent in Guthrie county, and on the eighteenth day of April, 1892, he entered into a written contract for the sale of the land to the plaintiff. The contract purports to have been made by the defendant, by G. A. Berry, his agent.
*301There are two questions presented by the record. Tlie first is, was the contract an unconditional…
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