Child v. Mastin

Action for an accounting. There was judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals.

We do not sustain the accounting. The parties have few points of agreement. We find it convenient to state first the basis of a right accounting; and then to consider the claims of the'‘plaintiff in support of the accounting made, and the claims of the defendant which do not accord with our view. So much .as is possible we abbreviate the facts.

1. In 1912 the defendant owned 292 and a fraction acres of land in Dakota county. One May was in possession, claiming an oral contract of purchase at $45 an acre. The…