Sewell v. Leifer

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. This is an action for breach of contract. Leifer, the plaintiff, listed certain property for sale with the defendant Prickett Realty Co., who procured the co-defendant Sewell to sign a contract of purchase. Sewell thereafter reneged and allegedly stopped payment on the earnest money check in the sum of $500, half of which would otherwise have gone to the plaintiff and the other half to the co-defendant. Leifer then sued Sewell and the real estate company for $250 each plus punitive damages, and later amended the prayer as to Sewell by seeking "$3,000 actual damages”…