Buechler v. Olson

This suit is brought upon an alleged oral contract entered into on behalf of the defendant by an alleged agent, under oral authority. One Garvey purported to sell to the plaintiff a farm of the defendant’s, and purported to have oral authority so to do. This purported contract of sale was reduced to writing, and embodied in a receipt for a part of the purchase money given by one Grant, as another alleged agent for the defendant. The plaintiff, however, brought his suit upon the antecedent oral contract, and not upon the written contract. Upon the trial, however, he introduced his written…