Stroff v. Swafford Bros.

In January, 1887, the- plaintiffs, Charles Stroff and wife, resided at Mount Vernon, Iowa, as did also the defendants, Swafford Bros. On the twenty-eighth of the month they concluded an agreement by which one hundred and twenty acres of land in Missouri was conveyed to Charles Stroff, and in return the home of the plaintiffs, being a house and two lots in Mount Vernon, was conveyed to defendants. Stroff and wife had never seen the land in Missouri, and claim to have taken it on the representations of the defendants. It appears that in making the exchange the Missouri land was valued at twelve…