Mueller v. Svejkovsky

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON,

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This appeal is the result of a jury verdict awarding $4,000 damages to the plaintiff due to defendant’s alleged breach of contract to sell certain shares of stock in a ranch corporation.

The plaintiff brought the action to recover damages for defendant’s breach of contract. The defendant-appellant, R. W. Svejkovsky, hereinafter referred to as the seller, and his wife have the controlling interest in the Swan River Guest Ranch, a Montana corporation. In the spring of 1967, seller placed in the Minneapolis Tribune the following…