Crancer v. Lareau

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs below, defendants in error here, recovered a judgment after a jury trial against the defendants, plaintiffs in error here, for $5,050 on two alleged causes of action springing frqm a written contract between the plaintiffs and Charles D. Bell, made on September 14, 1920, whereby the plaintiffs agreed to sell for $7,500 1,000 acres of timber trees out of 1,840 acres they owned, and Bell agreed to buy and pay $7,500 for them on or before August, 1921, and whereby they also agreed that Bell, or his assigns, “should have the exclusive option of purchasing the…