HOOVER v. WEBB

No. 89-1367.

460 N.W.2d 456 (1990)

Barbara G. HOOVER, Administrator of the Estates of Ronald W. Huffman and Shirley Huffman, Appellee, v. Ronald J. WEBB and Eileen J. Webb, Defendants, and Julia M. Wallace n/k/a Julia M. Holst, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick W. Brick and Mary S. Bernabe of Brick, Seckington, Bowers, Swartz & Gentry, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Stephen A. Hall of Hall and Schlenker, Indianola, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and HARRIS, LARSON, SCHULTZ, and CARTER, JJ.


HARRIS, Justice.

Purchasers paid for real estate partly in cash and partly by transferring a vendor's interest in land they had previously sold. The vendor's interest in the earlier contract later became worthless and the question here is which party to the later contract must bear the burden of the loss. The trial court, applying a provision in the uniform commercial code, assigned the loss to the purchasers. We reverse and remand.

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