Jameson v. United States Farm Land Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
■ In Error .to the District Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota; Charles A. Willard, Judge. Action by. A. Y. Jameson against the United States Farm Land Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
CARLAND, Circuit Judge.
This action was brought by Jameson to recover from the Land Company damages for breach of contract. On the trial at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the action was dismissed on the merits on motion of counsel for defendant. This ruling of the court is assigned asÉ error. It was alleged in the complaint that the Land’Company, on or about September 1, 1911, offered and proposed to Jameson that if he would procure one M. W. Savage to un-dertdke -the handling and sale of a tract of land known as “Chowchilla Ranch,” in California, containing about 108,000 acres, on…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway v. Columbus Rolling MillSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
3Cited by3 opinions
- Damers v. Trident Fisheries Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1920
- United States Farm Land Co. v. JamesonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1917
- Jameson v. United States Farm Land Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1914