Schwartz v. Davis Manufacturing Co.

Plaintiffs appeal from the judgment of the trial court, sitting without a jury, that plaintiffs had failed to establish a cause of action against the defendant corporation.

Francis J. Schwartz originally owned lots 6, 7, and 8 in the Northford Park subdivision in the township of Troy, Michigan.* 1 Defendant corporation owned lots 9 through 23 and lots 60 through 67. Lots 1 through 5 and lots 68 and 69 were owned by Mr. Reginald Stevens.

Plaintiffs claimed that in 1951 Mr. E. R. Davis, who was then president of defendant corporation, proposed to Stevens and Schwartz that the subdivision be…