Ewing v. Miller

EAGER, Judge.

This is a suit for damages, actual and punitive, for the alleged breach and repudiation of a contract to reconvey' real estate. The trial court directed a verdict for the defendant at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence. After the overruling of an after-trial motion, plaintiffs have appealed. We shall refer to the parties as they appeared below. When the word “plaintiff” is used we refer to the plaintiff husband.

Plaintiffs bought an apartment building at 2903-2905 East 27th Street in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1953. They paid $3,000 down. The property was encumbered with first and…