Home Realty Lynnwood, Inc. v. Walsh

¶1 The real estate statute of frauds, RCW 64.04.010, requires that a contract for the sale of land must describe the land by legal description sufficient to locate the land without recourse to oral testimony. In this earnest money deposit dispute between buyers Jae Won and Mi Ja Lee and sellers John and Marcy Walsh, the trial court found that the residential purchase and sale agreement satisfied this requirement based entirely on oral testimony that the parties intended to attach the legal description by faxing and placing the documents together in the same file folder. Because we adhere to…