Larson v. Cole

Grimson, District Judge.

Plaintiff brings this action for specific performance of an option contract for the purchase of a residence properly described as Lots 13 and 14, Block 1, Swanson’s Addition to the City of Milnor.

The defendant is a dentist who had lived with his wife and minor daughter in this residence since 1929 up to the time when this transaction began. From 1923 to 1933 defendant had been in the reserve corps of the United States Army. He then became “draft officer”. He was commissioned in the dental corps September 26, 1942, and ordered to report to Camp Hahn at Riverside,…