Strehl v. D'Evers

Per Curiam :

The object of this bill was to compel a specific performance of an alleged parol agreement for a lease of certain premises for a period of three years, and in case such relief could not be decreed for want of authority in appellee to make the alleged contract, that appellant should be awarded compensation and indemnity therefor.

The appellant claims that, in May, 1871, he purchased of appellee a stock of drugs and medicines situated in a store building known as No. 50 West Madison street, at a price agreed upon, and at the same time, and as a part of the same transaction, it was…