Knutson v. Ripson

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE CULVER

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioner, Knutson, brought this suit seeking damages for the breach of a contract whereby Knutson agreed to sell, and the respondents, Ripson, Norton and House, agreed to buy approximately 1200 head of cattle. To the following Special Issue “Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the liability, if any, of the defendants under the contract in question, was not settled and discharged by Emil Knutson by his acceptance of the checks delivered to him by defendants on November 11, 1959?” the jury answered: “It was settled…