Henderson v. Eckern
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Norman county to recover $304.50, ■damages alleged to be due for breach of contract. The answer admitted that plaintiff was a duly qualified, appointed and acting deputy sheriff for Norman county, and that defendant was at one time the cashier of the Scandia-American Bank at Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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Action in the district court for Norman county to recover $304.50, ■damages alleged to be due for breach of contract. The answer admitted that plaintiff was a duly qualified, appointed and acting deputy sheriff for Norman county, and that defendant was at one time the cashier of the Scandia-American Bank at Grand Forks, North Dakota. The case was tried before Grindeland, J., who directed a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $164.75. From an order denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
This action, as disclosed by the pleadings and the evidence, is, in legal effect, one to recover damages for the alleged breach of a contract of indemnity. At the close of the evidence each of the parties moved the court for a directed verdict in his favor. The trial court denied the defendant’s motion, and directed a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $164.75. The defendant appealed from an order of the district court of the county of Norman denying his motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial. He here assigns forty-three alleged errors.' Thirty-five of them…
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