Mitchell v. Art Institute

Appellant, George C. Mitchell, complainant in the court below, filed a bill in chancery in the circuit court of Cook county against the Art Institute of Chicago, a corporation, appellee in this court, to compel the specific performance of a contract for the sale of certain lots in Grant’s addition to Evanston, owned by appellee, which contract had been executed by appellant as purchaser and by Walter M. Mitchell, brother of appellant, as agent for appellee, on January'27, 1914. Appellee answered, denying that it had entered into any written agreement with the complainant for the sale of the…