Vasey v. Saari
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Actio-n in the district court for St. Louis county against the persons doing business under the firm name of Saari Brothers to recover a balance of $491 due upon a contract. The answer alleged that defendants had paid plaintiffs in full.
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Actio-n in the district court for St. Louis county against the persons doing business under the firm name of Saari Brothers to recover a balance of $491 due upon a contract. The answer alleged that defendants had paid plaintiffs in full. The ease was tried before Hughes, J., who when plaintiff rested denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the action, and at the close of the testimony denied their motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which returned a verdict for $531.84. From an order denying their motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C.
Defendants were engaged in logging in St. Louis county during the winter of 1915 and 1916 and hired three carloads of horses from H. C. Weinstock of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for use in their logging operations. Most of these horses belonged to third parties and not to Weinstock, but this fact was not disclosed to defendants until after they had contracted with Weinstock for the horses and lie had delivered them. Twelve of these horses, six teams, belonged to W. E. Vasey and J. E. Vasey and had been procured by Weinstock under a written contract made January 4, 1916, which he had…
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