Springer v. Keller

*34The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to recover a sum of money which defendant had assumed and agreed to pay as part consideration for certain mortgaged lands conveyed to him in an exchange of properties and incidents pertaining thereto.

The transactions leading up to defendant’s alleged assumption of the obligation giving rise to this action were somewhat complicated, but may be thus summarized:

In 1924 one Thomas C. Howe made a contract of exchange of properties with this, defendant, Martin C. Keller, whereby Howe conveyed to Keller a, tract of 160 acres of…