Marodolac v. Uhe

Shepherd, District Judge.

This was a suit to recover $3,000 paid by plaintiffs on a purchase by them of an eighty in Sarpy county, on the theory that the contract of purchase and sale was breached by the defendants. The defendants, who were man and wife, alleged in their answer that plaintiffs themselves breached the contract of purchase and refused to take the land, thereby damaging them in the sum of $5,000, for which they prayed judgment.

The case was tried to a jury and the trial resulted in a verdict and-judgment for the appellees (defendants) in the sum of $543.16. The plaintiffs…