Gilmartin v. Stevens Investment Co.

Did the trial court, after finding that plaintiffs had sustained substantial damage, err in allowing them nominal damages only, and in denying them a new trial on the question of damages?

On November 22,1948, Marie Gilmartin and her husband, A. F. Gilmartin, purchased from Stevens Investment Co., Inc., a certain tract of land in Island county, state of Washington. Twenty months later, the Gilmartins brought this action against the vendor. They alleged that Stevens Investment Company had breached covenants of the real-estate *291contract which obligated the vendor ■ to construct certain sewer…