Hartley v. Furgeson
Hartley v. Furgeson
Opinion of the Court
This action was brought by the respondent to foreclose a mortgage upon certain real estate. After issues were made and a trial had thereon, a decree was entered as prayed for in the complaint. The defendants have appealed from that decree.
At the trial it was admitted that the appellants executed and delivered the notes and mortgage, but it was claimed by the appellants that the notes were given in part payment of the purchase price of a stallion; that when the sale was made the respondent, through his agent, warranted the horse to get with foal sixty-five per cent of all mares bred to him; that the warranty failed, and that the stallion was utterly worthless, and there was a total failure of consideration for the notes. The appellants also claim to have been damaged in the sum of $1,300 by reason of the failure of the warranty.
The main question at issue upon the trial was whether the warranty as above stated was made. The evidence was in direct conflict upon this question. It was admitted that, at the time the sale was made, a written contract was entered into, executed, and delivered; but the evidence of the appellants was to the effect that, after this writing was delivered, the appellant Floyd Furgeson discovered that the warranty, as stated above, was not contained in the writing; that thereupon the written contract was rescinded by mutual agreement, and $100 in cash paid at the time was returned, and thereupon an oral agreement was made to the effect that, if the horse with proper care failed to get with foal sixty-five per cent of all mares bred to him for a period of five years,
There is no error in the record and the judgment must be affirmed.
Hadley, C. J., Root, and Fullerton, JJ., concur.
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- L. M. Hartley v. Floyd Furgeson
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- Sales — Warranty—Evidence—Sufficiency. There is not sufficient evidence that the sale of a stallion was upon a warranty that he would get with foal sixty-five per cent of all mares bred to him, where it appears that notes and a mortgage were given for the price and a written contract was made which did not contain the warranty, and there is a direct contradiction of defendants’ evidence that the contract was rescinded and $100 returned and that later the oral warranty was substituted and the $100 again paid, and where the defendant who claimed the horse was worthless kept the horse and used him for two seasons without complaint or offer to return him, and then sold him to one of his attorneys for $250.