Abercrombie v. Hayden Corp.

In this action for breach of a real estate sales contract, defendant seller appeals from the judgment for plaintiff buyers.1 We affirm.

The parties entered into the contract in August, 1989. There was a specified closing date in the contract and a provision that that date could be extended in writing. A memorandum of the contract was recorded. Plaintiffs delivered the earnest money and quitclaim deeds to an escrow agent, together with the parties’ instructions that, if the transaction failed to close by the specified time, the earnest money was to be delivered to defendant and the quitclaim…