Olson v. Peterson

Plaintiff recovered a judgment of $2,568.49 against the defendant Rasmus Peterson, on December 17, 1919, on a claim for services rendered in the fall of 1918 in selling two farms in Renville county owned by Peterson. The one, a 160-acre farm, was sold for $22,400; and the other, containing 120 acres -of which 80 constituted the homestead, was sold for $19,800. Upon the latter was a $12,000 mortgage. The deals were closed on March 1, 1919. At that time the purchaser, after assuming the mortgages then on the farms and making certain cash payments, gave promissory notes secured by purchase money…