Schwartz v. Syver

Plaintiffs submit that the document which they signed was not a contract but only an offer to purchase which they rescinded before it was accepted. It is not an instrument to do credit to a lawyer but we agree with the learned trial court in holding it to be a sales contract, as it describes itself to be, identifying property to be sold, specifying the terms of payment, signed by the contracting parties, and partly performed by the buyers. The signing by the seller and his receipt of part of the purchase price cannot reasonably be interpreted as anything but an acceptance of the buyers’…