De Boer v. Olmsted

Olmsted, defendant in error, was plaintiff below and De Boer defendant. We refer to Olmsted as plaintiff and to De Boer as defendant, their alignment there.

Plaintiff, a broker, sued defendant in the county court for a commission. On trial to a jury he lost, appealed to the district court, and obtained a trial de novo before a jury there, whose verdict reads: “We, the jury, find the issues herein joined for the plaintiff, and assess his damages at the sum of sixty-four dollars and fifty-five cents.” Thereafter, plaintiff moved the court for judgment in the sum of two hundred and eighty-six…