Minneapolis Stock-Yards & Packing Co. v. Cunningham
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants, William Cunningham and Charles L. Haas, from an order of the District Court of Eamsey County, William Louis Kelly, J., made May 18, 1894, denying their motion for a new trial. The action was brought by the Minneapolis Stock Yards and Packing Company, a corporation, to recover $535.15 due it upon an account for hay, pasturage, yardage, money advanced, rent and other items.
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Appeal by defendants, William Cunningham and Charles L. Haas, from an order of the District Court of Eamsey County, William Louis Kelly, J., made May 18, 1894, denying their motion for a new trial. The action was brought by the Minneapolis Stock Yards and Packing Company, a corporation, to recover $535.15 due it upon an account for hay, pasturage, yardage, money advanced, rent and other items. Defendants admitted the account but pleaded a counterclaim of $1,410 rents which they had paid plaintiff for their office rooms at New Brighton which rent they alleged plaintiff’s agreed to repay on…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
In the first of these actions the defendants by way of counterclaim alleged that in consideration of their removing their place of business to plaintiff’s stock yards the latter agreed to furnish them office room at a specified monthly rent, and when they ceased to occupy the office to refund to them all the rent thus paid. The defendants produced no evidence of any such contract as alleged, but there was some evidence tending to prove that plaintiff agreed to furnish defendants office room rent free, but that, after defendants moved their business, the plaintiff charged them rent, which they…
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