Legal Opinion
Grunow v. Salter
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided September 20, 1898PublishedCited by 12 opinions
Error’ to Wayne; Donovan, J. Assumpsit by Oliver H. G-runow and Buchanan M. Patterson against Casper Salter and Joseph Salter to recover the accrued interest on a land contract. From a judgment for plaintiffs on verdict directed by the court, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
The plaintiffs brought an action to recover the amount of an installment of interest due them by the terms of a written contract for the sale of lands. The defense interposed was a surrender of the contract. The circuit judge directed a verdict for the plaintiffs for the accrued interest, and defendants bring error.
One of the defendants testified to the surrender as follows:
*149“ That he saw Mr. Patterson prior to giving up the contract, and that Patterson said that he must have either the money or the contract; that upon this occasion Casper Salter was hot present; that, some days after, he took…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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