Matteson v. United States & Canada Land Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe district court for Hennepin county to recover $12,000 damages for breach of contract. The complaint alleged a verbal agreement to sell plaintiff twenty-four hundred acres of land, described in the complaint, at the price of $8 per acre, payable part in cash and the balance on or before five years with interest.
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Action in tbe district court for Hennepin county to recover $12,000 damages for breach of contract. The complaint alleged a verbal agreement to sell plaintiff twenty-four hundred acres of land, described in the complaint, at the price of $8 per acre, payable part in cash and the balance on or before five years with interest. The complaint alleged it was agreed defendant’s secretary and manager should prepare written applications for the land described, and each application so prepared was signed by plaintiff, but it was expressly understood by both plaintiff and defendant that tbe…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
Plaintiff and appellant signed three applications to purchase lands therein described of defendant and respondent land company. One of these applications was for a tract consisting of nine hundred and sixty acres. The total number of acres applied for was twenty-four hundred. In view of plaintiff’s purchase, of this large number of acres, defendant reduced the price from $8.50 to $8 per acre. Defendant’s assistant secretary, Packard, for the defendant company, signed the acceptance of the applications. Subsequently letters signed by him and by the general manager treated the purchase as a…
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- Swedish American National Bank of Minneapolis v. KoebernickWisconsin Supreme Court · 1908
- Lindvall v. WoodsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
- Curtis Land & Loan Co. v. Interior Land Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1908
- Judd v. ArnoldSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
- Milwaukee Trust Co. v. Van ValkenburghWisconsin Supreme Court · 1907
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3Cited by3 opinions
- King v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1912
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