Beard Implement Co., Inc. v. Krusa

This action involves an alleged breach of contract between plaintiff seller, Beard Implement Company, Inc., a farm implement dealership, and defendant buyer, Carl Krusa, a farmer, for the purchase of a 1985 Deutz-Allis N-5 combine. The dispositive issue on appeal is whether the trial court in a bench trial erred in finding a contract existed between the parties. Specifically, defendant contends that plaintiff never accepted defendant’s offer to purchase the combine. We agree and reverse.

At trial, defendant testified that between December 20 and December 23, 1985, he had several conversations…