Van Eman v. Stanchfield
Supreme Court of Minnesota
This is an appeal taken by the plaintiff from an order of the District Court for Hennepin County, denying a motion for a new trial after a verdict for defendants. A sufficient statement of the case will be found in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Wilson, Ch. J.
By the In March, 1858, one S. B'. Olmstead bargained to these defendants a number of pine saw logs, in consideration of which they agreed to “ assume and take up ” a promissory note for $1,000, which Olmstead had before made to J. and A. J. Chapman, and which was then in the hands of Alexander Ferguson. The agreement entered into with reference to the. payment of the said note was reduced to writing, and is in the following words: “This agreement made and entered into this day at St. Anthony, March 18, 1858, between S. B. Olmstead of the first part, and Stanchfield and Brown,…
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