Newman v. French
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Linn District Court.— Hon. Wm. G. Thompson, Judge. Action for specific performance of an oral contract to convey, in which plaintiff seeks to have established and confirmed an equitable title to the premises in controversy as against the defendant, who holds the legal title, and by cross-bill against the interveners, who assert a title under conveyance by defendant. There was a decree in plaintiffs favor, and the defendant and interveners appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
We find it to be satisfactorily established by the evidence that defendant, who is the father of plaintiff, and who was over eighty years of age at the time the transactions hereinafter referred to took place, and who, having formerly been a resident of Linn county, had returned after a considerable period of absence to the home of the plaintiff near Central City soon after the death of plaintiff’s husband, proposed to plaintiff that she give up her home and go to live in town where the defendant, who is' blind, might more conveniently and comfortably live with her. Defendant proposed to buy…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Richmond v. Dubuque & Sioux City R. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1871
- Hopwood v. McCauslandSupreme Court of Iowa · 1903
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- Seymour v. SheaSupreme Court of Iowa · 1883
- Flower v. CruikshankSupreme Court of Iowa · 1889
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