McKean v. Mountain View Memorial Estates, Inc.

CROCKETT, Justice.

Defendants, Mountain View Memorial Estates, Inc. and Memorial Estates Security Corporation, appeal from an order denying their motion to set aside a default judgment against them based upon their alleged breach of a contract for the purchase of real property from the .plaintiff, Richard F. McKean.

By the contract referred to on March 9, 1961 the defendants had agreed to buy from plaintiff 56.87 acres of land at $5500 per acre, totalling $312,785. This land had been obtained by the plaintiff in several parcels for the purpose of selling it to the defendants to augment their…