Jackson v. Domschot

Alex H. Domschot and Edith A., his wife, owned improved real estate in Seattle which they sold to Ruth B. Jackson under a real-estate contract for fifteen thousand five hundred dollars. An initial payment of twenty-five hundred dollars was made. The remaining balance of thirteen thousand dollars, together with interest, was to be paid in monthly installments of eighty dollars, or more, per month.

The real-estate contract prepared by respondent’s attorney (exhibit A, attached to plaintiff’s complaint) contains the following provision which gave rise to this controversy:

“Sellers shall have the…