Cooke v. Weed
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover treble damages for a vexatious suit, brotight to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Williams, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
On December 19th, 1910, the defendant, Weed, brought an action against the present plaintiff, Cooke, alleging that on the 17th of November, 1910, he, Weed, was the possessor, under an option for purchase, of certain real estate in Greenwich of the value of only $50,000, that being the price which he was to pay for the property, and that on that date one William H. Clark orally agreed with him to buy the property from him at the price of $84,000; that Clark, through his agent, wrote to Cooke, who was a real-estate dealer in Greenwich, asking Cooke about the property, intending to rely and act…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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