Baessetti v. Shenango Furnace Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in tbe district court for St. Louis county to recover $1,704 for wrongfully canceling defendant’s contract with plaintiff and preventing him from fulfilling it. The case was tried before Hughes, J., who at the close of the testimony denied defendant’s motion for a directed verdict and a jury which returned a verdict of $673 in favor of plaintiff. From an order denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, it appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHallam, J.
Action to recover damages for the breach of an executory contract for the purchase by defendant from plaintiff of certain lagging and mining timber. The trial resulted in a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $673. Defendant moved for judgment in its favor notwithstanding the verdict, or, if that was denied, for judgment in its favor except as to a certain sum, or if that was denied, for a new trial. Each of these motions was denied, and defendant appealed from the order.
The contract, for the alleged breach of which plaintiff sought damages in this action, consisted on defendant’s part of a…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Hinckley v. Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Kingman & Co. v. Western Mfg. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1899
- Olds v. Mapes-Reeve Construction Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Allen v. MurrayWisconsin Supreme Court · 1894
- Cameron v. WhiteWisconsin Supreme Court · 1889
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- Green v. LovejoySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1923
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