Broderick v. Driscoll

This is an appeal by Edward A. McCue from a decree of the circuit court of Whiteside county directing the specific performance of a contract alleged to have been made by Dennis Driscoll for the sale of real estate to James Broderick. Dennis Driscoll was the owner of the east two-thirds of lots 8 and 9 in block 40, in Wallace’s addition to the city of Sterling, which, as we understand it, was his residence. In February, 1920, he was temporarily in the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary in Chicago for treatment. He wrote Henry Brown, his neighbor in Sterling, asking him if he could sell his…