107 N.Y.S. 422 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1907
This action is to recover back $50 paid by the plaintiff to the defendant as a deposit on a contract for the purchase by the former of the latter of a .lot of land. The defendant did not refuse performance, but the -’plaintiff claims the right "to recover on the ground that the contract was not sufficiently expressed in writing to satisfy the statute of frauds. But this is wholly irrelevant.
The judgment should be reversed.
•• Woodward, Jenks, Hooker and Rich, JJ., concurred.
Judgment of the Municipal Court reversed and new trial ordered, costs to abide the event.