75 Iowa 327 | Iowa | 1888
— The plaintiff claims to have purchased of an agent of the defendant certain real estate, and in all respects to have complied with the contract on his part. The material allegations of the petition are denied by the defendant. We find from the evidence that the defendant was the owner of the real estate in controversy, and Odell Bros. & Co. were real-estate brokers. The defendant gave such brokers, some months prior to the sale, the right to sell the real estate, which they did to the plaintiff on the terms named by the defendant, except that defendant stipulated that the deferred payments should bear interest at eight per cent., but said brokers, when they sold to the plaintiff, contracted for only six per cent, interest" on the deferred payments. We, however, have been unable to find any evidence in the record showing that the defendant
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