White v. Breen
Supreme Court of Alabama
Arpeax. from the Circuit Court of Colbert. Tried before the Hon. H. C. Spxoakm. This was an action brought by the appellant, Mary T» White, against the appellee, Albert Breen, to recover damages for the alleged'breach of a contract of sale of certain lots. The material facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Arpeax. from the Circuit Court of Colbert. Tried before the Hon. H. C. Spxoakm. This was an action brought by the appellant, Mary T» White, against the appellee, Albert Breen, to recover damages for the alleged'breach of a contract of sale of certain lots. The material facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. After the introduction of the letters constituting the correspondence between the defendant-. Breen and ituffin, and between Moses and Breen, (which letters are set out in the opinion), the defendant having objected to such correspondence at the time it was offered,…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
— The question in this cáse is whether the writings appearing in evidence constitute such a memorandum of a contract of sale of the lots by Broen to Mrs. White as satisfies the statute of frauds. Breen was the owner of lot numbered 4 in block numbered 72, situated on Montgomery Avenue, and lots numbered 4 and 5 in block numbered 96, situated on Annapolis Avenue, in the city of Sheffield, Colbert county, Alabama. He owned no other property in that city. On November 6, 1890, he wrote from New Kingston, Pa., to W. H. Ruffin, Esq., of Sheffield, as follows: “Would you be kind enough to hunt up a…
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