Carstens v. McDonald

This action was brought in the court below by W. G. McDonald against Hartwig Carstens, to recover damages for an alleged breach of an executory contract for the sale *859of corn. There was a verdict and judgment in plaintiff’s favor for $6.25, and defendant prosecutes error to this court.

Defendant in error is in the stock business in Pierce county, and plaintiff in error is engaged in farming in said county. The proof shows that on the 7th day of November, 1890, McDonald went to Carstens’ farm for the pur- • pose of buying the latter’s crop of corn, and, after some negotiations between the…