Finstad v. Ransom-Sargent Water Users, Inc.

CROTHERS, Justice.

[¶ 1] John and Lori Finstad appeal from a judgment awarding them $58,000.99 in damages and interest in their action against Ransom-Sargent Water Users, Inc., now known as Southeast Water Users District (“District”), for breach of the lease-back provisions of an option agreement between the parties. The District cross-appealed from the judgment. We conclude the district court erred as a matter of law in ruling the economic duress doctrine relieved the Finstads of their obligations under a subsequent agreement and release they had entered into with the District. Because the…