FINSTAD v. RANSOM-SARGENT WATER USERS, INC.

No. 20130222.

849 N.W.2d 165 (2014)

2014 ND 146

John N. FINSTAD and Lori L. Finstad, Plaintiffs, Appellants and Cross-Appellees v. RANSOM-SARGENT WATER USERS, INC., and/or Ransom-Sargent Water Users District, and/or Southeast Water Users District, and/or Southeast Water Users, and Jay Anderson, Scott Johnson, Don Lloyd, Don Smith, Larry Schultz and Patsy Storhoff, Defendants Ransom-Sargent Water Users, Inc., and/or Ransom-Sargent Water Users District, and/or Southeast Water Users District, and/or Southeast Water Users, Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

July 17, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce A. Schoenwald , Moorhead, MN, for plaintiffs, appellants and cross-appellees.

Michael T. Andrews , Fargo, ND, for appellees and cross-appellants.


CROTHERS, Justice.

[¶ 1] John and Lori Finstad appeal from a judgment awarding them $53,000.99 in damages and interest in their action against Ransom-Sargent Water Users, Inc., now known as Southeast Water Users District ("District"), for breach of the lease-back provisions of an option agreement between the parties. The District cross-appealed from the judgment. We conclude the district court erred as a matter of law in ruling the economic duress doctrine relieved...

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