Case ID: minn_24/html/0354-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gilfillan, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Morris Weber vs. Martin D. Clark.
    December 31, 1877.
    Contract — Performance.—One who, for a stipulated price, undertakes to find a purchaser for a farm, is not entitled to anything unless he finds a purchaser willing to huy the whole farm, not even though he find a purchaser who buys a part pf it.
    Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of the district court for Eamsey county, Simons, J., presiding.
    
      John B. Brisbin, for appellant.
    
      Geo. L. é Chas. E. Otis, for respondent.
   Gilfillan, C. J.

Defendant owned a farm of two hundred acres, and agreed to pay Weber one hundred dollars if he would find a purchaser for it. Weber found a purchaser for one hundred and seventeen acres of the farm, who purchased -that quantity from defendant. Weber sued for one hundred dollars.

Clearly he was not entitled to recover anything. The contract was entire that Weber should find a purchaser for the whole farm, and that for doing so defendant should pay bim one hundred dollars. Weber was not entitled to anything until he performed his part of the contract, and found a purchaser willing to buy the whole farm. This he did not do.

Judgment affirmed.