Hook v. Harmon National Real Estate Corp.

An infant’s executory contract for the purchase of real property from defendant is here involved. When plaintiff, as vendee, signed the contract, she was seventeen years old and now, at the age of twenty-three, sues to recover the $1,080 she paid under it. The controversy has been submitted to the court for decision without a jury and without testimony, on an informal, agreed statement of facts which eliminates all but one of the issues the pleadings purport to raise. The salient facts are susceptible of brief statement and their recital will not only clearly indicate the question involved…