BURSTEN v. TOM SAWYER, INC.

No. 19050.

308 F.2d 542 (1962)

Leonard BURSTEN, Appellant, v. TOM SAWYER, INC., formerly Sawyer Downtown, Inc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

September 18, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Mark Wolff, Miami, Fla., for appellant.

J. Edward Worton, O. B. Cline, Jr., Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before RIVES, JONES and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

The appellee is a Wisconsin corporation. It brought suit in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the appellant, a resident of Florida, basing jurisdiction upon diversity of citizenship. In its complaint Sawyer claimed that it had agreed with the appellant, Bursten, to advance to him money for investment in Florida real estate under an oral contract providing that upon the sale of the property purchased, the corporation...

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