Court Opinion

ID: 3497238
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 22:04:51.924772+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:15:33.759794
License: Public Domain

This is an action of assumpsit brought by the plaintiffs, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by them by reason of the defendant's refusal and failure to perform an agreement, made on or about the 8th day of July, 1918, whereby defendant agreed to sell and convey, and the plaintiff agreed to buy a certain property in the city of Highland Park, Michigan. The defendant filed a plea of the general issue with notice of tender before suit was commenced, and also the statute of frauds. It was admitted plaintiff paid $500 when the agreement was made, and that he is entitled to a judgment for at least $500, but defendant claims that to this amount no interest should be added. At the close of the plaintiffs' case and again at the close of all the testimony defendant moved for a directed verdict and paid into court $500 and also $25 costs, being the amount of claimed tender and the costs of plaintiffs, previously taxed, the money being deposited with the court. The motion was overruled. Verdict for plaintiffs for $571.80 and judgment thereon with costs to them was entered.
It is the claim of defendant that he made a tender of $500 sufficient to stop the running of interest. It was the claim of the plaintiff that the tender was not *Page 691 
unconditional. The trial judge submitted the question to the jury in a fair charge. The jury accepted the claim of the plaintiffs as to what was said and done about the tender.
We find no reversible error.
The judgment is affirmed, with costs to the appellees.
CLARK, C.J., and McDONALD, BIRD, SHARPE, STEERE, FELLOWS, and WIEST, JJ., concurred.