Boeving v. Vandover

This is an appeal from a judgment denying specific performance on an oral contract for the purchase of an automobile.

The petition states that defendant is a Buick automobile dealer in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, doing business under the name of Vandover Motor Company; that plaintiff and defendant entered into an oral contract on the 7th day of November, 1945, wherein defendant agreed to sell plaintiff the 13th new Buick passenger automobile that would come into his possession after the date of purchase for the market price thereof, and that plaintiff deposited with the defendant $100.00 as part…