Sorenson v. Adams

BISTLINE, Justice.

This dispute arose out of an alleged shortage of the quantity of tillable acres involved in the sale of a farm.

In the spring of 1970, J. Gaurth Thompson, plaintiff-appellant, and David L. Bird approached Rex Adams, defendant-respondent, regarding the purchase of Adams’ farm, situated in Power and Bannock Counties, Idaho. Adams stated that he wanted to sell the farmlands, some equipment, and a grain elevator he owned in Virginia, Idaho, for the sum of $280,000. After two meetings, Bird withdrew and was replaced by Thompson’s uncle, Myron P. Sorenson, the other…