Sullivan v. Dunham

The facts out of which the legal questions in this case arise are the following: Sullivan, being owner of a certain parcel of land, contracted to sell it to Dun-ham, and gave him a written contract whereby he agreed to convey the land on certain payments being made as therein specified. While Dunham held this contract, Sullivan had some negotiations for an exchange of the same land with one Gordy for land owned by the latter, and he proposed to Dunham that if he would surrender his contract so that the trade could be made with Gordy, he should be paid one-half of all the “boot money” he could…