Ingerslev v. Goodman.

The defendants, who are husband and wife, were the owners of certain real property in the City of Portland upon which they had a three-story building that they desired to rent. Or December 12, 1921, they entered into an oral contract with plaintiff to make some alterations in said building and to lease the premises to her for a term of five years, and received from her a check for $100 for which they gave a receipt reciting that it was “to apply on rental” of said property. Three days later the parties prepared and signed a written memorandum of agreement by the terms of which defendants…