The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-03-15
new CASES IN COURT
A. N. Arney Commences Suit to Re-
cover $l2,5OO Lost in Trading
His Farm for Texas Land.

A. e. Dorm. The plaintiff brings suit to
recover $12,500 damages which he
claims he sustained by reason Of enter
ing into land deal with the defendants
wherein he traded his farm of 240 acres
in Franklin township, together with the
live stock, grain and other property on
it, to Robinson for 727 acres of rice land
in Texas. In his petition the plaintiff
states that defendant Robinson is a
trader and dealer in real estate living
in Virginia, Illinois, and the defendant
A. e. Dorm was his agent for making
exchanges and trades for property own
ed by Robinson. That sometime in the
month of August, 1905, the said Dorm
sent for him to come to his place of
business in Leon, Iowa, and engaged
him in conversation and interested him
in the rice lands of Texas which were
under the control of Robinson, and that
Dorm artfully and shrewdly represented
the great value of the land and the
profit that could be made therefrom and
sought to and did interest the plaintiff
in the matter of trading his property
for such lands. Plaintiff alleges 5hat he
informed Dorm that if he made trade
for the Texas land he would insist upon
placing fair cash marketable value
upon the property, to which Dorm as
sented. That thereafter Robinson came
to Leon and Dorm opened negotiations
with plaintiff to trade him Texas land
for his farm in Decatur county. That
the plaintiff had been farmer all his
life and was inexperienced in the
matter of real estate and had never
been in the state of Texas. That Robin
son and Dorm persuaded him to go to
Texas and look at the land and when he
agreed to do so and started from Leon
he found Dorm ready to accompany him.
When they reached Houston Robinson
joined them and he and Dorm took
charge of plaintiff and showed him
various tracts of land, carefully guard
ing, hindering and deterring him from
conversing out of their presence with
any one versed in the market value of
lands in that vicitity. They showed
him various tracts which Robinson
claimed to own or control and greatly
exaggerated the accounts of the posi-
bilities of said lands and the large
profit which could be made from them.
He alleges that all the time he was
there that Robinson and Dorm took con-
troll of him and by various means and
misrepresentation, kept him occupied
in travel, examination of lands, visiting
theatres and a trip to a neighboring
city, and thus hindered the plaintiff
from recovering his judgment and equi-
librium Of thought until he left Texas.
They showed him tract of land con-
sisting of 1914 acres and claimed it was
worth $27.50 per acre on the market,
which he accepted as true, Robinson
alleging they would sell on the market
for that price. Some days after Robin
son came to Weldon and Dorm telephon-
ed plaintiff he could now make the trade
with Robinson, and after Robinson
again looked over Arney's farm they
finally agreed that he would take it at
$25,O00 which included large number
of horses, cattle, hogs, grain, c., and
in exchange Arney was to receive 727
acres of Texas land and $4,000 in cash.
That after the deeds were made Robin
son disposed of all the property receiv-
ed from plaintiff and converted the
same into cash and other property for
his own use. That after receiving the
deed for the Texas land he went to
Texas and upon inquiry learned that
the market value of the land was not
$27.50 per acre, but only $12 to $19.
He charges that Robinson and Dorm col
luded, connived and conspired together
to cheat, wrong and defraud him, and
therefore demands judgment in the
sum of $12,500 and costs. He also
alleges that Robinson has property in
Decatur county and other counties in
Iowa subject to execution, and asks
that an attachment issue against the
property in the sum of $4,000, and
Judge Towner ordered the attachment
in this sum. v. r. McGinnis and M. L.
Temple attorneys for plaintiff.
DR.. Fl. r. Layton VS.. National Masonic
Accident Association, of Des Moines,
Iowa, and North American Accident
Insurance Co., of Chicago, Illinois. The
plaintiff brings suit for the sum of $2O4
which he claims to be due him by
reason of an accident policy held by
him in the National Masonic Accident
Co., whose business was afterwards
taken over by the North American
Accident Insurance Co., of Chicago,
stating in his petition that he suffered
an accident on August IS, 1905, when he
was struck on the knee by the handle
Of the fly wheel on his gasoline yacht,
which totally disabled him for period
of five weeks, and partially disabled him
for the full period of twenty-six weeks
covered by the insurance policy. He
asks for judgment for this amount with
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