Baker v. Polydisky
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Becker county for specific performance of a contract for the purchase of certain land. The answer alleged that plaintiff was informed of the mortgages upon the land at the time of the execution of the contract and agreed to assume them and pay in addition thereto the sum of $2,800. The ease was tried before Fish, J., who made findings and ordered judgment in favor of defendants.
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Action in the district court for Becker county for specific performance of a contract for the purchase of certain land. The answer alleged that plaintiff was informed of the mortgages upon the land at the time of the execution of the contract and agreed to assume them and pay in addition thereto the sum of $2,800. The ease was tried before Fish, J., who made findings and ordered judgment in favor of defendants. From the judgment entered pursuant to the order for judgment, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Lees, C.
Appeal from a judgment for defendants in a suit for specific performance of an option, for the purchase of land.
In March, 1917, defendants executed a written instrument, the material portions of which read as follows:
“For and in consideration of the sum of one dollar * * * I here*74by grant unto C. A. Baker an option for 250 days from the 29th day of March, 1917, to purchase for the sum of twenty-eight hundred dollars ($2,800) the following described lands * * * in the county of Becker and state of Minnesota * * * said C. A. Baker to signify his intention to take or reject the same by…
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