Soules v. Cox

This is an action by the plaintiff buyer to recover a sum paid as earnest money on two earnest-money agreements. The two agreements, each datéd April 18, 1956, covered adjacent properties and, with the exception of descriptions and amounts, were identical in terms.

*599Each agreement contained an addendum which provided that the buyer’s offer was contingent upon the acceptance of the offer made in the other earnest-money agreement; that, if without fault of the buyer he was unable to complete the purchase of the land described in the other agreement, he could terminate the agreement, and all…