Montes v. Hawkins

PRESIDING JUSTICE HARTMAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal emanates from the granting of summary judgment to plaintiff Paul Montes and the denial of similar relief to defendant Darnell Hawkins, in an action for specific performance of an agreement and accounting, and a counterclaim for rescission of the agreement.

Montes was the sole owner of a parcel of land on West 103rd Street in Chicago on which he undertook and partially finished construction of a 47-room motel prior to May 1979. On May 21, 1979, Montes and Hawkins entered into a written real estate sales contract obligating…