WILLIMANTIC INVESTORS, INC. v. COVELL


147 Conn. 34 (1959)

WILLIMANTIC INVESTORS, INC. v. MILDRED F. COVELL ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided December 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore E. Steiber, with whom, on the brief, was Richard I. Steiber, for the appellant (plaintiff).

John F. McGowan, for the appellees (defendants).

KING, MURPHY, MELLITZ, SHEA and ALCORN, JS.


MURPHY, J.

The plaintiff contracted to purchase a business property in the center of Bridgeport from the defendants. It paid a deposit which the defendants have retained as liquidated damages for claimed breach of the contract. The plaintiff sued to recover the amount of the deposit and of the expenditures it had made in ascertaining the marketability of the title to the property. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants...

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