Thomas v. Lavery

Defendant Jessie E. Lavery appeals from a judgment awarding plaintiff J. D. Thomas damages in the sum of $30,856 for breach of a contract executed on November 12, 1925, whereby he was given the exclusive right to sell fifty-seven lots in a subdivided tract in the city of Los Angeles owned by said Jessie E. Lavery. Plaintiff sued to recover for loss of future profits or commission which he alleged he would have earned from the sale of lots unsold on August 1, 1927, had he not been wrongfully prevented from selling said lots. Emma L. Barnett, a daughter of Mrs. Lavery to whom she conveyed the…