Pruitt v. Meyer

The dispute between these parties started out as a suit by a vendee for specific performance of a contract for the sale of real property; and ended up (this action) as a dispute between vendor and vendee as to which of the two contending parties shall be entitled to the proceeds of a fire insurance policy following a fire which destroyed a dwelling after the parties had signed an earnest money agreement but before they had executed a real estate contract and closed the sale.

Plaintiffs, Robert T. Pruitt and Meryl G. Pruitt, his wife (Pruitt), as purchasers, and defendants, Henry Meyer and…