Northouse v. Torstenson

This is an action in equity to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate. The trial court found for the defendant and dismissed the plaintiffs’ petition, from which the plaintiffs appealed.

The plaintiffs and appellants assign as errors that the judgment is not sustained by sufficient evidence and is contrary to law, for errors of law occurring at the trial and duly excepted to by the plaintiffs, and for the error in overruling plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial.

The evidence discloses that David A. Ommerman, the grandfather of the plaintiff George Northouse,…