Woodruff v. Butler
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for rent of a house, brought to the Court of Common Pleas for Litchfield County and tried to the court, Welch, J. ; judgment for plaintiff, and appeal by defendant. The following facts were found: The defendant’s wife was his agent to hire a furnished house for the summer. The house in question was shown her by the plaintiff’s broker, and the bounds of the house-lot pointed out.
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Action for rent of a house, brought to the Court of Common Pleas for Litchfield County and tried to the court, Welch, J. ; judgment for plaintiff, and appeal by defendant. The following facts were found: The defendant’s wife was his agent to hire a furnished house for the summer. The house in question was shown her by the plaintiff’s broker, and the bounds of the house-lot pointed out. She offered $600 for its use, as then furnished, for four months, and the offer was accepted. The house was then occupied by a Mrs. Wiggin, for whom and others the plaintiff was trustee. It was agreed that a…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The lease sent to the defendant was so executed as to bind the plaintiff. As soon as the defendant wrote back that it was “all right,” the statute of frauds was satisfied, and it bound him. It was the evident intention of the broker when the lease was sent, that the defendant should sign, seal, and return it. But that he did not do so made it none the less a written memorandum of an agreement for the transfer of an interest in land signed by the owner ; and the defendant’s letter referring to it, and stating his assent to its terms, was a written memorandum of the same agreement, signed by…
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