Mitchell v. King
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Ford county; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding. This was a bill for a specific performance of a contract for the sale of land, filed by Lewis Mitchell against George ,E. King and Simon S. Brucker. The facts necessary to an understanding of the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
Simon S. Brucker, residing at Pontiac, owned a certain two hundred and eighty acres of land in Ford county, which he was anxious to sell. He verbally instructed one George Wolgamot, residing at Watseka, to negotiate a sale for him, giving him no power, however, to make a deed, limiting, in the first instance, the price to $15 per acre, but subsequently instructing him, by letter, that he might sell it at $10 'per acre. About the middle of October, 3871, Wolgamot, as agent of Brucker, entered into a verbal contract with George K. King, whereby he sold the land to him at $10 per acre— agreeing-…
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