24 Iowa 141 | Iowa | 1867
This provides that suit may be brought on a contract' in a county where by its terms it is to be performed.
And, therefore, the only question is whether by the terms of the contract, it was to be performed on defendants’ part in Lucas county.
The action was upon the one contract, the petition assigning several breaches. It is not pretended that the attention of the court was called specifically to its possible duty to sustain the motion as to part, and overrule it as to the other cause of action. The breach for failure to deliver the material is assigned in the same count with that which claims the $1,000 for the delay in finishing the grade. And though we might concede as. to this fraction of the entire claim (about one-eighteenth) that the action was properly brought, and that the court might, consistently enough, have retained the case as to
For our views of the statute and in support of this conclusion see Hunt v. Bratt (23 Iowa, 171).
Affirmed.