Wright v. Schram

This is an action to recover $320 in damages on a claim that defendant withheld from the possession of plaintiff 2,000 bushels of corn which the latter purchased from the former for $1,520. Defendant demurred to the petition. The demurrer was sustained. Plaintiff refused to plead further and the action was dismissed. Plaintiff appealed.

The petition was challenged by the demurrer on the grounds that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action and that the transaction pleaded was a verbal contract for corn exceeding $500 in value and unenforceable under the statute of…