Rothenbuecher v. Tockstein

The defendant, Margaret A. Tockstein, appeals from an order granting the plaintiff below, Alan Rothenbuecher, specific performance of a sale contract to purchase certain real property located in Belleville, Illinois. The judgment, entered October 4, 1979, in the circuit court of St. Clair County is challenged upon the grounds that (1) no valid contract of sale existed between the parties under the facts presented, and (2) that the trial court’s dismissal of a party whose signature appeared on the instrument in question as a co-signing buyer necessitated dismissal of the cause against the…