Olson v. Veum

It was the plaintiff alone and not the defendant who sought affirmative relief on account of their contract. To sustain the judgment bélow is to overlook the substantial distinction between a mere denial by an infant of contract liability where the other party is seeking to enforce it and those cases where he who was the minor not only disaffirms such contract but seeks the aid of the court to restore to him that with which he has parted at the making of the contract. In the one case he is using his infancy merely as a shield, in the other also as a sword. The latter situation is fully…