Petty v. Langan

Plaintiff, who owned 160 acres of land in Gregory county on which there were no buildings, contracted to sell it to defendant. Defendant took possession and, after having for ten years cropped the part of the land which was in. cultivation, found that he was unable to perform the contract on his part. In November, 1929, plaintiff began an action to foreclose defendant’s rights under the contract. Defendant took the complaint in the action to Mr. Hooper, his attorney in this appeal, and Hooper on December 5, 1929, wrote to J. F. Frame, plaintiff’s attorney at Burke, S. D., a letter in which he…