Rooney v. Samuelson

This is an action in contract in which the plaintiff-sellers seek to recover $35,000.00 in damages for the defendant’s breach of his agreement to purchase the plaintiffs’ property at 107 Appleton Street, Arlington, Massachusetts.

The report discloses that on July 7, 1983 the plaintiffs negotiated and accepted terms of a real estate purchase offer made by the defendant. The agreement executed by the parties called for the subsequent signature of a formal purchase and sale contract; and provided that the plaintiffs would retain defendant’s $1,000.00 deposit “without recourse to either party” if…