Sturgis v. Meadors

Appellees obtained a judgment, by a jury trial in the circuit court, against appellant for $1,000, based on the general allegation that appellant had given them a check for $1,000 as earnest money for the' purchase of a farm and that later payment was stopped on the check. The principal issue involved is whether appellees can maintain such action even though they could not have maintained an action for specific performance of the contract because of the statute of fraud.

On September 25, 1952, appellant went with a real estate agent named Van Tries to look at appellees’ 229-acre farm with the…