Green v. Lovejoy
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $5,625 for breach of contract. The case was tried before Cant, J., who at the close of the testimony denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which returned a verdict for $1,345.03. Defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was denied and her motion for a new trial was denied provided plaintiff consented to a reduction of the verdict to $484.24. Plaintiff’s motion to amend the…
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Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $5,625 for breach of contract. The case was tried before Cant, J., who at the close of the testimony denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict, and a jury which returned a verdict for $1,345.03. Defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was denied and her motion for a new trial was denied provided plaintiff consented to a reduction of the verdict to $484.24. Plaintiff’s motion to amend the order granting a new trial was granted and the following paragraph added: “In the opinion of the court it was error to…
1Opinion of the Court
Taylor, C.
Plaintiff is a settler in the eastern part of Cook county. He possessed a small sawmill located about three miles from Lake Superior and had made a contract with the Lesure Lumber Company by which he had agreed to cut and remove the merchantable timber from 16 forty acre tracts of land belonging to that company by October 15, 1919, and to pay that company two dollars per thousand feet for the timber, so cut and removed. Defendant is engaged in the lumber business at Duluth, Minnesota, under the name of Duluth Lumber Company.
On December 31, 1918, plaintiff as party of the first part…
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