Katemis v. Westerlind

Appeal by defendant from an adverse judgment in a suit for specific performance of a contract for the sale of realty and damages. On a prior trial a judgment of nonsuit was rendered. On appeal that judgment was reversed. (Katemis v. Westerlind, 120 Cal.App.2d 537 [261 P.2d 553].)

Defendant was the owner of a parcel of realty in Los Angeles improved with a furnished apartment house. On February 23, 1952 plaintiff George Katemis and defendant signed the instrument, pertinent provisions of which are copied in the margin, 1 by which Katemis agreed to buy and defendant agreed to sell the property…