White v. Hampton
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Scott District Court. IN Chancery. The bill charges that complainant, in 1851, employed the respondent, Hampton, as an agent for the sale and location of land warrants, and that he furnished him with a large number of warrants from that date until July, 1855. To his bill he annexes a specific account of each warrant furnished, when and to whom sold by Hampton, the price paid or to _ be paid by the purchaser, the amount of principal and interest due, and the…
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Appeal from Scott District Court. IN Chancery. The bill charges that complainant, in 1851, employed the respondent, Hampton, as an agent for the sale and location of land warrants, and that he furnished him with a large number of warrants from that date until July, 1855. To his bill he annexes a specific account of each warrant furnished, when and to whom sold by Hampton, the price paid or to _ be paid by the purchaser, the amount of principal and interest due, and the amount paid over to complainant by said Hampton. It is also charged that Hampton received for complainant a large amount of…
1Opinion of the CourtWeight, C. J.
We have before us in this case a record of about four hundred pages, composed of pleadings, exhibits, the commissioner’s report, and a large number of depositions. Counsel have argued the cause very fully and presented at length their grounds for, and against reversing the decree below. Having arrived at the conclusion that this decree should in all respects stand affirmed, we shall proceed to state briefly the grounds upon which this conclusion is .based. And in doing so we shall, for convenience, notice the more important objection urged by appellant to the decree and proceedings in the…
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