Godding v. Colorado Springs Live Stock Co.
Colorado Court of Appeals
Appeal from the District Court of Ml Paso County. This was an action brought by the appellee to recover damages for failure to perform a contract, and for alleged false representations alleged to have been made by appellant in procuring the contract to be made.
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Appeal from the District Court of Ml Paso County. This was an action brought by the appellee to recover damages for failure to perform a contract, and for alleged false representations alleged to have been made by appellant in procuring the contract to be made. Appellant in 1888 being in control of an alfalfa ranch in Weld county — the title being in his father — entered into a contract with appellee, which was engaged in handling and feeding cattle, to sell to it the hay produced upon the ranch for three years, from 600 to 1200 tons per year, to be by appellant put in stack. Appellee was to…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
This case is peculiar in one aspect of it, showing the extent to which results are influenced by the place of trial.
*18T. F. Godding brought suit upon the contract for its breach, in Weld county, where he resided. Appellee brought suit in the county of its residence, El Paso, against John E. God-ding, on matters pertaining to the same contract. In the first, plaintiff obtained judgment for over $2,000, in the latter plaintiff obtained this judgment for $5,400. An examination of the allegations in appellee’s answer in the first, and the allegations of its complaint in the latter, show them to be…
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