Martineau v. Czajkowski

Holt, Justice.

Plaintiffs, husband and wife, sued defendants, husband and wife, to compel specific performance of a written contract whereby defendants agreed to convey to plaintiffs a house and lot in St. Paul, Minnesota, for $4,000, which sum plaintiffs agreed to pay before September 1, 1936. The evidence showed that defendants had a good and merchantable title to the premises; that they had listed the same for sale with the Cherokee Realty & Investment Company for $4,000 cash; that George G. Davis, an employe of the company, negotiated the sale to plaintiffs; that on August 4, 1936, a…