Gutz v. Holahan

There is presented for decision here but one primary controversy. That problem involves the plaintiff-appellants’ right to rescind their contract to purchase from the defendant-appellee a 320-acre farm in the province of Manitoba, in the Dominion of Canada. Appellants, John Frederick Gutz and Clarence Melvin Hanson, in August, 1919, began to purchase Canadian real estate. In all, they bought 4,500 acres thereof. At first, appellants themselves went to Winnipeg,- Canada, where the first transaction was consummated. Later, however, they conducted their affairs through a real estate agent,…