Eliason v. Watts

STEWART, Justice:

This appeal is from a judgment granting specific performance and rental-value damages of $8,200 for the period defendants had failed to perform according to the terms of an “Earnest Money Receipt and Offer to Purchase” real property.

*429Defendant Watts and his partner, John A. Kerr, a co-defendant who did not join in this appeal, acquired the subject property in North Logan, Utah, in 1976. A few months later, Kerr agreed to list the property for sale with Sherma Fife. Both Fife and Kerr were associated with Sierra West Real Estate. After the Eliasons, plaintiffs, had negotiated…