Kearns v. Andree

The plaintiff was the owner of a lot of land at the corner of Prospect and Edwards streets in the town of East Hartford, on which stood a dwelling-house then in the process of construction but practically finished. In the rear of the land upon which this house stood, he owned other land upon which another house was located. He and the defendant en*» tered into an oral contract whereby, as it is stated in the finding, “the defendant agreed to purchase the house and lot at the corner of Prospect and Edwards streets at a price of $8,500, it being agreed the de fondant should assume a first…