Wycoff Realty Co. v. Grover

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harman, C.:

This is an action for specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate. In the lower court judgment on the pleadings was entered for the defendant, resulting in this appeal. The issue is whether certain correspondence between the parties constituted a contract.

The action was commenced by the filing in the district court of Logan county, Kansas, of plaintiffs’ petition in which they alleged they are partners doing business at Russell Springs, Logan county; that defendant, a resident of Modesto, California, owned a quarter…