Nelson v. Butler

This is a suit instituted by ap-pellee against J. A. Nelson, C. J. Anderson, and Emil Gustafson, appellants, for specific performance or to recover $6,072, alleged to be due as damages arising from the breach of a contract of purchase of certain land. The cause was tried by the court, without a jury, and judgment rendered in favor of ap-pellee for $1,000. All parties appealed.

It appears from the evidence that a contract was entered into between appellants and appellee on July 6, 1914, whereby the latter was to sell to appellants a certain 1,-200-acre tract of land out of the William T. Hatton…