Meek v. Lange

Hastings, 0.

Two questions seem to be raised in this case: First, whether or not damages for loss of the bargain can be recovered against one who, without the assent of his wife, makes an executory contract for the sale of his family homestead, which the wife subsequently refuses to carry out; second, if the contract is valid and damages recoverable, when was it broken, and at what date did the value of the land, less the purchase price, become the index of the value of the buyer’s bargain, and consequently of the amount of his damage? Of course the second question is of no importance if the…