Dodd v. Groos
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Humboldt District Court. — D. F. Coyle, Judge. Action for specific performance of an alleged contract for the sale of land resulted in decree as prayed. The defendant appeals. — Reversed.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
-I. The defendant Groos, residing at San Antonio, Tex., owned 80 acres of land near Pioneer. The plaintiff claims to have purchased said land through defendant’s agent, J. F. "Whittman. In his petition, filed February 20, 1914, he prayed for the specific performance of a written contract, to which Whittman had attached Groos’ name by himself as agent. This contract, among other things, exacted the payment of $6,000 of the purchase price, 10 years after March 1, 1914, .with interest payable at Gilmore Exchange Bank, Gilmore City, Iowa, and that plaintiff “furnish an abstract showing good…
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