Dopps v. Alderman

This is an action to rescind a real estate contract, brought by plaintiffs, the purchasers, against defendant, the vendor. Plaintiffs have appealed from a decree denying them rescission and granting defendant specific performance of the contract. There will be no occasion to make special mention of appellant wife, and we shall therefore refer to Mr. Dopps as if he were the sole appellant.

The land in controversy, a forty-acre tract in Yakima county, was conveyed by the United States to the Northern Pacific Railway Company by a patent dated December 20, 1915, which contained the following…