Martin v. Bohn

Hawes, Justice.

The appeal in this case is from a judgment for the defendant entered upon the verdict of a jury which verdict had been directed for the defendant at the close of all the evidence in the case. Martin sued Bohn for $4,500 alleged to be due under a certain real estate sale contract. Before the trial of the case he amended his complaint to add a count seeking, in the alternative, specific performance of an alleged contract to reconvey the property sold.

1. On the trial the evidence showed that the plaintiff and the defendant entered into a standard real estate sale contract by which…