Coleman v. Sowders

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

On March. 26, 1919, Gr. W. Sowders sold to R. P. Coleman, etc., a jack, known as Mountain Boy, for $900.00. They paid him then $100.00 and executed four notes for $200.00, payable annually thereafter. On March 17, 1922, they filed this action against him alleging that to induce them to purchase the jack and as a part of the contract of sale, Sowders guaranteed that the jack when used for breeding purposes would produce foal in not less than seventy-five per cent of the cases in which mares were bred to him; that the defendant also stated to…