Schroeder v. Taafee

This is an action for damages for a breach of a contract to convey land. It appears that the defendants sold the land in question to the plaintiff at an advertised auction sale, received of him f25 earnest-money, and gave him the following receipt, which is the only memorandum of the sale : “ Received of W. Schroeder twenty-five dollars on'a/c of lot on 18th, 50 feet X 180, about 300 feet s. of Hebert St. Taaffe, Emerson & Co., per J. B. Brolasld. Price paid per foot, $21TsT°-¡r.” The defendants pleaded the statute of frauds. It appears that they sold the lot in question for an undisclosed…