Northwest Properties Agency, Inc. v. McGhee

This is an appeal by the defendant seller from a decree of specific performance of an earnest money receipt and agreement pertaining to 14 lots in Barker’s Addition to the City of Tacoma. This real property borders Interstate 5 on the east and the Tacoma Mall properties on the west.

The defendants, Joseph C. McGhee and his wife, admitted signing an earnest money receipt and agreement in December, 1966. They contended to the trial court, however, that the earnest money agreement should not be specifically enforced, for four reasons:

1. The agreement was not signed by the purchasers by its…