Hunter v. Buchanan

The facts in'this case, as shown by the pleadings and evidence, may be briefly stated as follows: In 1891 Cora May Buchanan was the owner in fee of lots 1 and 2, in block 3, in Gray’s addition to the village of Syracuse, Otoe county, in this state, and was managing and controlling her own property. There was a small house on lot 2. *278Cot 1, a corner lot, was vacant. Desiring to build a house on lot 1, she applied to W. E. Page, a lumber dealer in Syracuse, for the loan of sufficient money for the construction of the house, or that she be furnished with the material necessary for that purpose…