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43 Minn. 543

Hills v. Rix

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided June 23, 1890

Supreme Court of Minnesota · decided 1890-06-23

On December 12, 1888, plaintiff and others executed a written instrument agreeing to pay defendants “$100 for each share of stock set opposite our respective names in the Cleveland Bay Horse Company, which is now being formed at Heron Lake to buy the imported stallion Topthorne at $1,800,” of the defendants, “payments to be made by two joint notes of equal amounts due in one and two years from February, 1889, ” with interest. Plaintiff subscribed for two shares.

Decided 1890-06-23

Gilfillan, C. J.

¶1The written contract for the sale of the horse to the plaintiff and his associates stated the price at $1,800, at the fate of $100 per share for eighteen shares, of which plaintiff subscribed for two. Plaintiff cannot make out his case, as he states it in his complaint and claims it to be on the evidence, without showing that defendants agreed with him to take $125 instead of $200 for his two shares. This he offered and was permitted by the justice to show by a prior or contemporaneous oral agreement between plaintiff and defendants to that effect. Of course that was error. The defendants raised the objection on the first opportunity after the written contract was in evidence so that it could be made. The two notes were no part of the contract of sale, but were given some days after its execution and in performance of it.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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