Wooten v. DeMean

FLANIGAN, Presiding Judge.

This action arises out of a real estate contract entered into on July 1, 1985, between C. Tal Wooten, Jr., plaintiff-buyer, and Harry R. DeMean and his wife Dorothy DeMean, defendants-sellers. The property involved was an office building and lot known as the Courtyard Office Center and located in Springfield. The purchase price was $1,282,398.38. The closing date, so Wooten contends, was October 16, 1985. Prior to that date, a dispute arose between the parties and the contract was not carried out. In 1986 the DeMeans sold the property to another buyer for $1,650,000.

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