Dixon v. Haft

This is a suit at law by the owners of land against those to whom they had granted an option to buy the land to recover damages alleged to have been suffered when the potential buyers, after having later agreed to do so, would not consummate the purchase. A demurrer to the declaration was sustained and the facts we set forth are the well-pleaded allegations of the declaration as particularized.

On January 6, 1966, the appellants, owners of twenty-five acres of land in Anne Arundel County, entered into a written “memorandum of sale” with Herbert H. Haft, an appellee who expressed a real desire…