Brown v. Wade
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Wayne District Court. This is an action for the possession of a certain forty acres of land, of which plaintiff alleges he is the owner. The answer denies that plaintiff owns the land, and alleges that defendant is the owner thereof.
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Appeal from, Wayne District Court. This is an action for the possession of a certain forty acres of land, of which plaintiff alleges he is the owner. The answer denies that plaintiff owns the land, and alleges that defendant is the owner thereof. The leading facts, chronologically stated, are as follows : Some time in the first week of October, 1872, French E. Brown, the father of plaintiff, made a parol contract of purchase from J. T. Davis of the west half of the northwest quarter of section twelve, township sixty-nine, range twenty, in Wayne county, the price agreed upon being $800. The…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
I. The abstract purports to set forth the testimony, so far as it relates to the questions raised upon the instructions. The contract of purchase was made in the first week of October, 1872. The price agreed upon was ten dollars- per acre, part of which was to be paid in cattle and a crib of corn, and the balance in money. The evidence -tends to show that, in August preceding the purchase, French E. Brown, the purchaser, had loaned Davis $20, and that it was agreed this should go upon the land in part payment. At the time of the sale it was agreed that Davis should have upon the purchase…
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