Chapman v. Coats
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lee District Court. Compromise agreement : mistake oe eaot : recording act, etc. — Plaintiff brought this action to foreclose a mortgage made by the defendant Coats, on certain real estate, and the appellant, Seeley, is made a defendant, as claiming some interest therein. The present controversy is between the plaintiff and Seeley. The latter set up that he had a mortgage on the land in controversy older than the plaintiff’s mortgage.
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Appeal from Lee District Court. Compromise agreement : mistake oe eaot : recording act, etc. — Plaintiff brought this action to foreclose a mortgage made by the defendant Coats, on certain real estate, and the appellant, Seeley, is made a defendant, as claiming some interest therein. The present controversy is between the plaintiff and Seeley. The latter set up that he had a mortgage on the land in controversy older than the plaintiff’s mortgage. Appellant admits that there was a defect in the description of the land in this mortgage, but claims that the plaintiff had actual notice of…
1Opinion of the Court
Dillon, Ch. J.
1. Equity: mistake of fact. — The only question which the court can review on this appeal is, whether, on the showing made, the District Court erred in denying; the . , .. _ , J & motion to set aside the compromise agreement *290and decree. If evidence had been taken to establish, that the plaintiff had actual notice of the appellant’s prior defective mortgage on the land, it is not in the record, and'we can form no judgment respecting the merits of the controversy between the parties on this point.
The agreement sought to be set aside was entered into .between the attorneys of the…
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