Riggs v. Magruder

20 F. Cas. 787, 2 D.C. 143, 2 Cranch 143
CourtU.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia
DecidedDecember 15, 1817
StatusPublished
Cited by1 cases

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Riggs v. Magruder, 20 F. Cas. 787, 2 D.C. 143, 2 Cranch 143 (circtddc 1817).

Opinion

The Court

(Thruston, J., absent,)

decided, that the agreement was void by the 17th section' of the statute of frauds ; and that if the jury should be of opinion from the evidence, that it was agreed between the parties that the oral contract should be reduced to writing the next day, and signed by the parties, and that it was not so reduced and signed, the contract was never complete.

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