Gibb v. Merrill

At the October term, 1923, of the circuit court of Livingston county, appellee, Charles Gibb, began an action of trespass on the case for breach of contract against appellant, Hazel Merrill. There was a trial by jury, and at the close of all the evidence the court directed a verdict against appellant for $1,600, being for $800 paid on the contract and for a like sum as damages. From the judgment entered upon the verdict an appeal has been prosecuted to this court.

Appellee, on August 9, 1919, purchased from appellant, under a written contract, a residence property in the City of Fairbury. The…