Newman v. Albert

This is an action for declaratory relief and for specific performance of a contract for the purchase and sale of real property. The trial court ordered judgment for plaintiffs and ordered that a deed conveying the real property involved be delivered to plaintiffs upon payment to the defendant executor of the sum of $9,000. Defendant Donald Forbes Albert, as executor of the estate of John William Forbes, appeals from the judgment, claiming that the evidence is insufficient to support and sustain the findings.

On May 24, 1946, John W. Forbes, Henning Newman and his wife, Esther Newman, signed…