Kuhns v. Gates

The facts which appear in the answers returned by the jury to the interrogatories addressed to them may be thus summarized : Benjamin Pring was the owner of the colt here in controversy, and on Sunday, the 24th day of August, 1879, made with the appellee an oral contract of exchange, wherein it was agreed that the latter should take the colt and deliver in exchange a bay mare upon the payment by the former of $40 in money; that the exchange was not to be deemed finally determined upon until Pring should receive the assent of his grandmother, and that the appellee should retain both the colt…