Roberts v. Roberts
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clay District Court. — Hon. Lot Thomas, Judge. The following is appellant’s statement of the issues: “On the eleventh day of August, 1891, the plaintiff filed in the district court of Olay county her petition, alleging, in substance, that in the month of July, 1890, she sold to the defendant certain real estate for the sum of eleven hundred dollars, and he was to pay and assume a mortgage thereon in the sum of six hundred dollars, and also to pay the expense of…
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Appeal from Clay District Court. — Hon. Lot Thomas, Judge. The following is appellant’s statement of the issues: “On the eleventh day of August, 1891, the plaintiff filed in the district court of Olay county her petition, alleging, in substance, that in the month of July, 1890, she sold to the defendant certain real estate for the sum of eleven hundred dollars, and he was to pay and assume a mortgage thereon in the sum of six hundred dollars, and also to pay the expense of the last sickness andburial'of plaintiff’s daughter, Mrs. Linn Dodge; that the expenses aforesaid were the sum of ninety…
1Opinion of the CourtG-ranger, C. J.
*2301 2 *229I. There are quite a number of assignments of error, based on the rulings of the court as to the admission of evidence, on the ground that the question called for or the answer stated a conclusion. It will only be necessary to notice two or three assign*230ments. It will be remembered that the David Painter and the Ackley Hubbard claims were those that the plaintiff alleges the defendant agreed to pay as a part consideration for the land. Plaintiff was a. witness in her own behalf, and, after testifying' that she had paid the Painter claim, she was asked and answered the following questions:…
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