Fox v. Doll

MOISE, Justice.

Writs were granted in this case to review a judgment of the appellate court, which denied plaintiffs’ claim for double the amount of a deposit made by them to bind an agreement to purchase and permitted the defendant vendors to retain the amount of said deposit, $200,'thereby reversing a judgment of the district court in favor of plaintiffs.

The facts of the case, briefly, are:

Applicants signed on April 26, 1948 an agreement to purchase certain property from respondent vendors for the price of $2,000; the contract, which was on a printed form used by vendors in their real estate…