Langley v. Sanborn
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ash-land county: Oeeek T. Williams, Judge. Action for damages resulting from breach of contract.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ash-land county: Oeeek T. Williams, Judge. Action for damages resulting from breach of contract. The jury found that about March 6, 1902, the defendant agreed ■with the plaintiffs that if the latter would turn over to him their option to purchase certain lands from J. Y. Earwell and would get for the defendant an extension of the option, if desired, he would have the lands looked over, and if he found that he could purchase them for a satisfactory price he would do so and resell them within a reasonable time and divide with the plaintiffs the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 28, 1908:
Dodge, J.
Among the many questions of fact and law controverted by counsel there is one the answer to which is so fundamental and decisive of the case as to render consideration of'the others immaterial. For the purposes of that question it may be assumed that the findings of the jury mentioned in the statement of facts are all sustained by the evidence, and that the contract on plaintiffs’ part has been so fully executed as to take it out of the statute of frauds, and that the option which they purported to hold and which they transferred was…
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