Byers v. Federal Land Co.

MUNGER, District Judge.

This suit was brought for the cancellation of a contract for the purchase of land. The parties will be designated as in the trial.court. The defendant the Federal Land Company was a corporation organized under the laws of Wyoming and doing business at Cheyenne, Wyo. The other defendant, J. R. Carpenter, was its president. The plaintiff entered into a written contract on January 23, 1920, to purchase from the Federal Land Company 320 acres of land in Wyoming, for whieh he was to pay $2,800 in cash and a balance of $8,400, with interest, in 50 semiannual installments. In…