New York Brokerage Co. v. Wharton
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Keokuk District Court. — IIon. W. G. Clements, Judge. This is an action for specific performance. There was a decree for the plaintiff. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, C. J.
-Plaintiff brings this action for a specific performance of a written contract, purporting to be entered into between the plaintiff and the defendants (who *63are husband and wife) on August 3, 1906. The plaintiff was the owner of a stock of goods at What Cheer. The defendant W. C. Wharton was the owner of a farm of two hundred and eighty acres in Missouri, incumbered by a mortgage of $4,000. The defendant Ellen Wharton was the owner of forty acres, being the homestead of the defendants in Keokuk County, which was incumbered by a mortgage of $1,500. By the contract in question the defendants…
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