Legal Opinion
Mews v. Charlie Chan Publishing Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided September 27, 1994No. 65371PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRANE, Presiding Judge.
Real estate seller appeals summary judgment in favor of buyers on their petition for return of earnest money deposited pursuant to a residential real estate sale contract. We reverse and remand for the reason that buyers waived the financing contingency to the contract and therefore were not relieved of their obligations under the real estate contract when they failed to obtain financing.
The facts on which the motion was based are undisputed. On February 24,1992, Marvin and Patricia Mews (Buyers) and Charlie Chan Publishing Corp. (Seller) contracted for the purchase of…
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