Ingalls v. Green

This is the plaintiff’s appeal from the dismissal by the Appellate Division of a report in a case tried in the District Court of Southern Essex in which the finding was for the defendant. The declaration averred breach by-Helen K. Ross of a contract to convey land in Swampscott. The defendant is the administrator of the estate of Ross.

The controlling issue presented by the denial of the plaintiff’s requests for rulings is whether a contract was made in the course of an exchange of letters between the plaintiff, or his attorney, in Massachusetts, and Ross in Chicago, Illinois.

The…