Killion v. Schleifer

MAGRUDER, Chief Judge.

Louis Schleifer of New York brought an action in the district court against William J. Foley 1 of Brookline, Massachusetts, claiming that he had suffered damages in the amount of $210,000 as a result of Foley’s refusal, in violation of an alleged oral contract, to complete a sale to Schleifer of the Hotel Touraine in Boston. Attached to the complaint was a memorandum signed by Foley and allegedly containing in substance all the terms of the oral agreement. Defendant’s answer, as amended, joined issue on the only question which remains open, given the present posture of…