Boeckeler v. McGowan

After rehearing, we are satisfied that we were wrong in holding that the memorandum of the sale made by Mrs. McGowan in the office of the Lafayette Mutual Building Association was of itself sufficient to take the case out of the statute of frauds, because it does not contain the name of the vendor. But it contains a reference to the trustee’s sale which had taken place on the same day. The reference, we think, sufficiently connects the memorandum made by the auctioneer upon the advertisement at the time of the bidding with this memorandum. The two, taken together, are certainly sufficient to…