Hoxsey v. Baker, 216 Iowa 85, 246 N.W. 653 (Iowa 1933)

Iowa Supreme Court opinion in a contract dispute between Harry M. Hoxsey (appellee) and Norman G. Baker (appellant). Case identity confirmed directly against the CourtListener REST API: case name 'Harry M. Hoxsey, Appellee, v. Norman G. Baker, Appellant', citations 246 N.W. 653 and 216 Iowa 85, court Supreme Court of Iowa, docket No. 41857, date filed 1933-02-07. A second, differently-worded API query returned the same identity record, and its 'snippet' field (fetched directly, not relayed through a search engine) reads in relevant part: the pleadings show 'that defendant, Norman Baker, was running an institution known as the "Baker Institute", which purported... to cure cancer, and on April 1, 1930, plaintiff and defendant entered into a written contract... it was agreed that Baker was in possession of a secret treatment for cancer, and the [passage cut off by the API's snippet length limit]'. The full opinion text (contract's 25-year term and the $540,000/$81,000 figures Hoxsey alleged) could not be confirmed against a directly fetched full rendering: casemine.com (which several independent search results quote at length) returned HTTP 403 to both curl and WebFetch, and iowacourts.gov returned HTTP 403 as well. Those unconfirmed figures are therefore omitted from the case bundle; only the facts in the directly-fetched snippet above (the Baker Institute's cancer-cure claim and the April 1, 1930 contract naming both men's 'secret treatment for cancer') are used, and only in paraphrase.