Harris v. Griffin

Defendants buyers 1 appeal the summary judgment and resulting interlocutory decree for the plaintiff sellers in this action for strict foreclosure of a land sale contract. We affirm.

The contract was entered into in 1971. It contains a time of the essence clause, requiring annual payments on December 1. The contract document contains a handwritten addition purporting to require plaintiffs “to cooperate with purchaser in any rezoning, platting, subdividing” and “to sign necessary documents for such application.” However, that language was added and initialed only by one of the buyers, who had…