Hillestad v. Hostetter
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs from an order of the district court for Polk county, Mills, J., presiding, refusing a new trial after verdict for defendants in an action to recover $294.37 for goods sold and delivered.
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The plaintiffs sue to recover for a bill of goods sold and delivered to the defendants and to Carver Bros., lumbermen, at the request and by the order of the defendants. The account, as rendered, is admitted by the pleadings to be correct, except as to an alleged excess of $9.25 in the account with Carver Bros. The only issue in the case litigated was whether the goods were furnished under an agreement that they were to be paid for by the defendants in lumber. The defendants allege that such was the agreement, and the plaintiffs deny it.
The parties live in the same town, the plaintiffs being…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Beede v. ProehlSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
3Cited by2 opinions
- Evans v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1916
- Loofbourow v. Utah Light & Ry. Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1908