Milne v. MacWhirter

In this action for damages for breach of an agreement by the defendant to purchase the plaintiff’s package store, the court rendered judgment for the plaintiff for $1500 and the defendant has appealed. These material facts found by the court are not subject to correction: The plaintiff was the owner of a package store on Trumbull Street in Hartford. He agreed to sell and the defendant to buy the business for $2000. The plaintiff told the defendant and attorney Pallotti, with whom they conferred, that he owed the city and state for taxes, approximately $400 to his landlord for rent, bills for…