Reese v. Jared

The facts in this case are substantially these: Jared employed Reese to erect a house on a certain lot of ground, and was to pay him therefor by conveying to him a certain other lot. Reese was to furnish the materials.

Reese built the house, and then discovered that in the agreement under which it was built, there were mistakes in the numbers of the lots to be built upon, and to be taken in payment. Reese, apprehending loss to himself, and with a view to prevent it, sold, while yet in possession thereof, the house *143he had erected for Jared, to one Sohmall, and moved it on to a lot of his,…