L & L CORPORATION v. Ammendale Normal Institute

The question presented by this appeal is whether a written contract for the sale of land zoned rural-residential, contingent upon the obtention of such reclassification of the whole tract as would permit its use by a maker of electronic devices, had been modified by an ostensible oral agreement to substitute a general commercial reclassification of a part of the tract for the light industrial reclassification of the whole tract initially applied for. The lower court found that the seller was entitled to forfeit the escrow deposit as a consequence of the purchaser deciding to declare the…