Giberson v. Fink

The plaintiff brought this action to recover the sum of one thousand dollars paid by her to the defendant on the purchase price of a dwelling house, erected by the defendant on a lot situated in East Sacramento. On the fifth day of February 1913, the plaintiff and the defendant entered into and executed a written contract, whereby the latter agreed to erect upon a lot owned by him a dwelling house or cottage, and to sell and convey the same to the plaintiff for the sum of two thousand two hundred, dollars, of which amount the plaintiff agreed to pay and did pay the defendant, upon the…