Keller Corporation v. Cable

Stone, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from the order sustaining defendant Wilson’s separate, general demurrer to the complaint.

Plaintiff sues for general and special damages for breach of a contract between itself and John E. Cable and his wife (now his widow) Elma L. Cable. The contract was made March 1, 1937. Mr. Cable died two years later. By the contract the Cables appointed plaintiff their “sole agent to sell” a certain Ramsey county subdivision. Plaintiff had partially performed the contract when Mr. Cable died. His widow, as executrix, sold the portion of the property not earlier disposed…