Higdon v. Lincoln Joint Stock Land Bank

The defendant, the Lincoln Joint Stock Land Bank of Lincoln, Nebraska, appellant herein, is the owner of some twenty farms comprising two thousand acres of land in all, situated in Clarke County, Iowa. Through its agent and field-man, Mr. Schewe, with headquarters in Osceola, Iowa, where he resided with his family, and who in his capacity of fieldman looked after the appellant’s farms in some fourteen counties in southwestern Iowa, it leased one of these farms to appellees. The negotiations were all made with the fieldman and the lease was signed up and mailed in to the company, and the…