Morton v. Drichel

The first alleged errors relied upon by defendant are the refusal of the court to direct a verdict at the close of plaintiff’s testimony and at ilic conclusion of all the testimony. The other errors alleged consist of the court’s giving of certain instructions and its refusal to give defendant’s requested instructions.

Tbe case arose out of an oral arrangement- between tbe plaintiff, Morton, a real-estate agent, and Dricbel, tbe defendant, owner of 135.16 acres in Cedar county. The first talk between tbe parties in relation to a sale of tbe land was in March 1945. Defendant told plaintiff that…