Vassau v. Campbell
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Polk county to recover $507.50 • damages for breach of contract. Tbe case was tried before Watts, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of defendants. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLovely, J.
This action is for damages for the alleged failure by defendants to deliver to the plaintiffs fifty head of “good, average cattle,” — yearlings not less than ten months old, raised in the Thirteen Towns and vicinity, — according to the terms of a written contract, under which the plaintiffs had paid $250, and afterwards had paid $7.50 as a consideration for a short extension. The defense- was that at the time agreed upon for delivery of the cattle the defendants properly tendered a bunch of cattle that complied with the terms of the contract, and that plaintiffs refused to accept them, which…
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