Iler v. Griswold

The plaintiffs in the ease are Julius O. Her, H. E. Gates, O. J. Schmidt and Mary A. Fried. The defendants are H. W.- Griswold, O. P. *443McKesson, N. P. Stoddart and Charles Hunt. Prior to the commencement of the suit, the parties, both plaintiff and defendant, agreed among themselves upon a joint purchase of forty acres of land, near Council Bluffs, Iowa. A conference led to the selection of H. W. Griswold as a trustee to effect a purchase, receive the title, and do other things for and on behalf of the purchasers. The conveyance of the land to Griswold as. trustee was by one Isham Wright, and…