Swift v. Lovegrove

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

Appellant, Robert M. Swift, owned 190 acres of land on which he operated a dairy. On March 4, 1960 he and appellee, Leroy Love-grove, Jr., entered into a written agreement (hereafter referred to as a contract) wherein appellant purported to sell and appellee purported to purchase the land, including the dairy cows and equipment. The contract, not drawn by an attorney, is crude and indefinite in its terms.

The parties however agree as to the following: (a) The price of the land was $16,500 and the price of the cows and equipment was $12,500; (b) appellee made a down…