Df Activities Corporation, a Michigan Corporation v. Dorothea F. Brown

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal in a diversity breach of contract case raises an interesting question concerning the statute of frauds, in the context of a dispute over a chair of more than ordinary value. The plaintiff, DF Activities Corporation (owner of the Domino’s pizza chain), is controlled by a passionate enthusiast for the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The defendant, Dorothy Brown, a resident of Lake Forest (a suburb of Chicago) lived for many years in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright — the Willits House — and became the owner of a chair that Wright had designed, the Willits…