Lageschulte v. Steinbrecher

This is an appeal from a decree that ordered specific performance of a written contract to sell land. We are asked to review three issues. 1. Whether the plaintiff-purchaser was in default of the contract; and for this reason, was not entitled to specific performance. 2. Whether the plaintiff-purchaser failed to tender the earnest money required by the contract and thus was not entitled to specific performance. 3. Whether the plaintiff-purchaser’s failure to disclose that he was in fact a cooperating broker, one who was sharing in the real estate commission that defendant was paying, met tire…