Leverenz Lumber & Building Co. v. Rickels

Defendant Gerhart Nickels, a building contractor, on the 27th day of April, 1928, entered into a contract with defendant Otto O. Hoppe, for the construction of a house in the city of Detroit, Michigan. Hoppe paid Nickels the sum of $500 as a first payment upon the execution of the contract. The photostatic copy of the contract attached to the record shows that the description of the lot was omitted. The contract was drawn by filling in a printed form, in which the space to be filled in with the description of the property was limited to a quarter of a line. Nickels testified that on account…