Garr v. Alden
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Berrien; Coolidge, J. Bill by Martha A. Garr and Harriet Garr against Horace G. Alden and «Frank B. Smith to cancel a contract for the sale of certain timber. From a decree for complainants, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
Complainants filed the bill in this case to cancel and set aside a contract by which they had agreed to sell the timber on 80 acres of land in Berrien county. Complainants are mother and daughter; the former being 83 years old and infirm, the latter being 45. The bill charged that complainants were the owners of the timber on the land in question, but that they were neither of them acquainted with the quality or value of the same; that the defendants came to their farm, made an estimate of the timber, and then offered $1,650 for the same; that complainants told defendants that they did not…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Maxted v. FowlerMichigan Supreme Court · 1892
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