McCormick v. Donahue

John Y. Donahue, in his lifetime, did a general contracting business under the name and style of Donahue Home Supply Company. Upon his death the appellee Bernice Donahue, his widow, was appointed Administratrix of his estate and as such she was authorized, by order of the Miami Circuit Court, to continue the decedent’s said business under the same name and style. Shortly prior to the transactions involved in this litigation the appellee Everett B. Castle, the owner of certain real estate in Peru, Indiana, improved by a three-story hotel building, sold the same to the appellant upon an…