Jordan v. Weber

REDMANN, Judge.

The parties to this litigation used a printed form, drafted for use in sales of land (including existing buildings), to embody an agreement relative to a house in the process of being constructed on the builder’s land.

The builder-seller now appeals from a judgment which imposed upon him the printed form’s penalties for noncompliance by awarding the buyers the return of their deposit plus an equal amount' “as penalty” plus attorney’s fees (as well as the cost of light fixtures and a stove hood the buyers had supplied to the builder). We eliminate the penalty and attorney’s fees…