Buxton v. Beal
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiffs, William Buxton and Kenneth MacRae, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Hicks, J., made September 11, 1891, refusing their application for a new trial .of .the action. The defendant, Alonzo H. Beal, in September, 1890, owned a lot on Fourth street, between Nicollet and Hennepin avenues, in Minneapolis, Minn., twenty-five feet front by one hundred and fifty-seven feet deep.
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Appeal by plaintiffs, William Buxton and Kenneth MacRae, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Hicks, J., made September 11, 1891, refusing their application for a new trial .of .the action. The defendant, Alonzo H. Beal, in September, 1890, owned a lot on Fourth street, between Nicollet and Hennepin avenues, in Minneapolis, Minn., twenty-five feet front by one hundred and fifty-seven feet deep. There was an old wooden building on it in which Mr. Beal had long kept a photograph gallery. The plaintiffs were partners doing business at Minneapolis, buying and selling real…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The defendant and his wife were the owners of a certain building lot in the city of Minneapolis, which they desired to lease for a long term of years. The plaintiffs' were real-estate brokers, and as such undertook, with defendant’s consent, to procure a lessee for the lot, on terms fixed by the defendant, for a period of 50 or 100 years, to be embraced in a lease to be made between the parties. It was understood in the negotiations between the plaintiffs and defendant that he would require a lease whose terms would protect his rights fully, and would want a competent attorney to prepare it.…
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