Digman v. Johnson

The defendant, Julia Johnson, appeals from a decree of the circuit court of Du Page County ordering specific performance of a contract for the sale of certain real estate to the plaintiff, Don E. Digman.

The testimony shows that about April 5, 1957, one Florence McLean, who then owned the property, made a telephone call to Henry E. Schulze, a real-estate broker, requesting him to prepare a contract of sale for cash. She advised him that she was going into the hospital that evening and would be unable to wait until the contract was prepared; that she had some blank forms of contract which she…