Johnson v. Fehsefeldt
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Grant county to recover possession of certain grain threshed by plaintiffs, on which they had filed a threshers’ lien, or for $250, the value thereof, and $100 damages.
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Action in the district court for Grant county to recover possession of certain grain threshed by plaintiffs, on which they had filed a threshers’ lien, or for $250, the value thereof, and $100 damages. The case was tried before Flaherty, J., who directed a verdict in favor of plaintiffs that they were entitled to the possession of certain flax or the sum of $138.49. Defendant moved for a new trial which was granted, unless plaintiffs would consent that the value of the grain be reduced to $65.28 and that the lien of plaintiffs on the flax be for the sum of $65.28. Plaintiffs consented to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
Plaintiffs and respondents, owners of a threshing outfit, entered in-to a verbal agreement with defendant and appellant to thresh defend*203ant’s grain, for which defendant agreed to pay the sum of ten cents a bushel for wheat, six cents a bushel for oats, and fifteen cents for flax. Plaintiffs contend that this case involved an agreement to thresh grain at so much per bushel; defendant, that it was to thresh all of his crop of grain. Upon the record, we are of the opinion that the question was one of fact. Pursuant to the agreement the plaintiffs threshed a portion of the crop. Before the entire…
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- Phipps v. McFarlaneSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1859
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