61 Iowa 269 | Iowa | 1883
— No question appears to be raised in regard to the identity of the land or sufficiency of the description. The land mentioned in the contract as Redenbaugh’s farm appears to be the northwest quarter of section twenty, township seventy-eight, range forty-two, west; and the tract of “eighty acres” appears to be the west half of the northeast quarter of the same section. It is true, the farm is described by the plaintiff in his petition, as set out in the abstract, as the southwest quarter of section twenty, but we infer from the evidence that it is a mistake of the printer. >
The defendants in their answer averred that the contract was made on Sunday, to which the pdaintiff replied that it was afterwards ratified. The ratification relied upon consists of an alleged promise to make the deed, and of the retention of the purchase-money so far as the same was paid. As to whether this would be sufficient to justify us in holding either
We do not care to go info a consideration of the question
Reversed.