Paullus v. Fowler

This is an appeal from a judgment ordering specific performance of a contract to sell real and personal property.

Prior to March 8, 1956, Ward Paullus, a single man, commenced negotiations with R. L. Martin, a single man, for a lease of his Farm Unit 126, Irrigation Block 72, Columbia Basin Project, in Grant County, Washington, and of his farm machinery and equipment, upon a cash rental basis. A lease agreement for a term of four years, terminating December 31, 1959, together with an option to purchase, escrow agreement, escrow instructions, bill of sale, and deed (in the event the option to…