Johnson v. Minneapolis Business College

Plaintiff was a farmer residing on a farm near New Richland, in Waseca county, with his wife, a son Carl O., aged 21, and a daughter Alice, aged 16. On November 17, 1920, the son entered into a written contract with the extension department of the Minneapolis Business College for a scholarship in commercial business by correspondence. Plaintiff signed the contract with his son, and in addition thereto executed his promissory note in payment for the scholarship for $285, payable in one year to the order off L. M. Lewis, with interest at 6 per cent per annum. Lewis was the principal of the…