Burdick v. Seymour
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Hancock District Court. Plaintiff alleges that on the 27th clay of February, 1866, the defendant, through his legally appointed attorney, T. W. Burdick, executed and delivered to plaintiff, a properly executed and acknowledged deed for a certain described forty acres of land, and that T. W. Burdick informed defendant of the execution and delivery of said deed, and. defendant by letter acknowledged the receipt of the • consideration and acquiesced in and ratified…
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Appeal from Hancock District Court. Plaintiff alleges that on the 27th clay of February, 1866, the defendant, through his legally appointed attorney, T. W. Burdick, executed and delivered to plaintiff, a properly executed and acknowledged deed for a certain described forty acres of land, and that T. W. Burdick informed defendant of the execution and delivery of said deed, and. defendant by letter acknowledged the receipt of the • consideration and acquiesced in and ratified the conveyance. That after the recording of the deed, defendant discovered that the recorder had made a mistake in…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
i craveyance1': ratification, The case will be better understood bj? a chronological statement of the material facts: N. Burdick and T. W. Burdick, of Decorah, under the firm name of BT. Burdick & Son, were the land agents of defendant, who resided in Massachusetts, and owned a large quantity of land in Hancock county, Iowa. In 1865, John Popejoy, James Goodwin, and S. B. Hewitt, Jr., were by the District Court of Hancock county appointed commissioners to select the location for the county seat of said county. The minutes of the Board of Supervisors of date November 4, 1865, show that said…
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