Horn v. Hansen
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, Theodore Hansen, from a judgment of the District Court of Swift County, Gorham Powers, J., entered May 16, 1893, against him for $60.95 damages and costs. This action was commenced September 2,1892, in a Justice’s Court by plaintiff, Manford Horn, upon the wheat ticket copied in the opinion.
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Appeal by defendant, Theodore Hansen, from a judgment of the District Court of Swift County, Gorham Powers, J., entered May 16, 1893, against him for $60.95 damages and costs. This action was commenced September 2,1892, in a Justice’s Court by plaintiff, Manford Horn, upon the wheat ticket copied in the opinion. Plaintiff claimed that John K. Sylte on October 7, 1891, delivered to defendant at his elevator in Milan forty-five bushels and twenty pounds of No. 1 Northern wheat, that Ole Saterbakken as agent for defendant gave Sylte the ticket and that Sylte afterwards sold his claim and…
1Opinion of the CourtVanderburgh, J.
The controversy in this case arises over a so-called “wheat ticket” issued by defendant, and now owned by plaintiff.
The plaintiff alleges that one Sylte, under whom he claims, sold and delivered to defendant forty-five bushels and twenty pounds of wheat, of the quality designated on the ticket, on the day of the date thereof, and that he thereupon issued to Sylte the ticket, which is as follows:
“No. 9,617. Date, Oct. 7, 1891. Theo. Hansen will pay to J. K. Sylte for forty-five 20/60 bushels, grade one, N. wheat. Ole Saterbakken, Buyer.”
It is also alleged that the wheat, on that day, was worth…
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