Minor v. Perry

FORD, District Judge.

This is an action at law for damages in the sum of $50,000, which plaintiff claims to have sustained on account of the defendant’s breach of an alleged oral contract relating to the purchase of real estate. After stating the terms of an arrangement by which a mortgage holder was induced to institute foreclosure proceedings and thereby bring about a- sale' of the mortgaged land, the petition- states the terms of the alleged agreement between the plaintiff, a citizen of Kentucky, and the defendant, a citizen of New York, as follows :

“Plaintiff says that prior to said…