SMALL v. OGDEN

No. 52304.

147 N.W.2d 18 (1966)

Claude Perrin SMALL and Kathryn Small, Appellants, v. Frank OGDEN and Helen Ogden, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. R. Mockridge, DeWitt, for appellants.

Lane & Waterman, by Robert V. P. Waterman and Donald H. Sitz, Davenport, for appellees.


RAWLINGS, Justice.

By an action in equity for declaratory judgment plaintiffs sought construction of a real estate contract and asked that forfeiture proceedings previously instituted by defendants be enjoined. The trial court found the contract unambiguous, denied the relief prayed by plaintiffs, and they appealed.

A written contract was entered into January 6, 1949, under which plaintiffs agreed to purchase and defendants agreed to sell certain farm land...

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