Bardusch v. Hofbeck

This is a bill for specific performance. Defendants had listed their home for sale with Mr. Gutleber, a real estate broker, and had set the price at $13,000. Complainant, who was so informed by the broker, told him that he would buy the house at that price and instructed him to pay a deposit and to prepare a contract of sale. Gutleber called on defendants, told them of complainant's decision, paid them $100 and took their signed receipt which reads as follows:

"Received from William E. Bardusch of 84 Maplewood Avenue, Maplewood, Essex County, New Jersey, the sum of $100 (one hundred dollars)…