Trainer v. Lammers

Action to recover $8,200 paid by tbe plaintiffs to the defendants upon a contract for the purchase of land. The defendants counterclaimed for $810 due as interest on deferred payments. The court granted the plaintiffs’ motion to dismiss during the course of the trial after considerable evidence had been taken, and denied defendants’ motion to direct a verdict for $810 upon their counterclaim. The defendants appeal from the order denying their alternative motion for judgment or a new trial.

On March 8, 1920, the defendants as vendors and the plaintiffs as vendees entered into a contract for the…