Mesa Market Co. v. Crosby
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the-District of Colorado. Action by the Mesa Market Company against Henry V. Crosby, as administrator of the estate of JL/ucy Crosby, deceased, and others. Judgment for defendants on cross-complaint, and plaintiff brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the-District of Colorado. Action by the Mesa Market Company against Henry V. Crosby, as administrator of the estate of JL/ucy Crosby, deceased, and others. Judgment for defendants on cross-complaint, and plaintiff brings error. This was an action at law brought by the Market Company to recover damages for an alleged broach of au agreement made by defendant Crosby and other heirs of one Henry D. Fates to sell and convey to plaintiff’s assignor, the Colorado Implement Company, certain lots of' ground situate in the city of Pueblo, Colo. The…
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). To avoid unprofitable repetition, the Implement Company and its assignee, the Mesa Market Company, will be referred to indiscriminately in this opinion as the purchaser, unless otherwise specified.
The contract in question was primarily one for the sale of real estate. The purchaser was to be given quiet and peaceable possession, and any default in the performance of the undertakings imposed upon it entitled the vendors to resume possession and terminate the right to purchase. If the option should be exercised, all installments of pur- . chase price paid and…
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