Hallett v. Ransom

This is an action to recover $1,200 as profits clandestinely made by defendant while acting as agent for plaintiff in the sale of a farm owned by her in Madison county, near Norfolk. Defendant wrote to plaintiff, who . resided at Seward, that the best price obtainable was $800. She promptly went to Norfolk, and in consideration of that sum executed a deed containing the name of M. B. Irwin as grantee. Subsequently his name was erased and that of M. O. Wolcott inserted. Within three months Wolcott sold the land to August F. W. Braasch for $2,000. It was pleaded by plaintiff, and the jury,…