Martin v. Setter

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment rendered in defendants’ favor for $8,845.19, There was a motion for a new trial which presented the questions now raised by the assignments of error. A brief statement of the main facts is necessary.

In August, 1925, defendant A. Milton Setter and plaintiffs entered into a tentative agreement to trade farms, Setter owning 1,600 acres in Canada with equipment of horses and machinery, and plaintiffs owning 360 acres partly in Dakota and partly in Scott counties, this state, with a dairy herd, horses, and machinery. In the deal one Denny was plaintiffs’ agent,…