Server v. Lang
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action op Contract on a land contract. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1917, Orleans County, Fish, J., presiding. At the close of all the evidence both parties moved for a directed verdict, and the court directed a verdict for the plaintiffs. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
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Action op Contract on a land contract. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1917, Orleans County, Fish, J., presiding. At the close of all the evidence both parties moved for a directed verdict, and the court directed a verdict for the plaintiffs. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. In executory contracts for the sale of land where there is a breach by the vendee, the vendor is not entitled to recover the amount of the purchase money as damages, but his damage is the difference between the price he was to receive and the value of the land left on his…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
In the spring of 1914 the late Frank Lang held title to certain property in Barton. It consisted of a village lot and residence thereon occupied by him and his family, called the home place; a barn on the Fair Ground near by, called the Holder barn, and a pasture called the Brown pasture. He also owned" two valuable horses, one a mare called Delisle, and the other a stallion called Childs. This property was all mortgaged to the Barton Savings Bank & Trust Company to secure Lang’s debts to the amount of over $4,000. He owed other notes and bills to various parties, on some of which suits had…
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