National Pacific Oil Co. v. Watson

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in an action brought upon the alleged breach of a contract for the sale of real property to recover payments on account of the purchase price made the defendant as vendor. The facts are practically undisputed, and are these:

The defendant by written contract agreed to sell to one Reynolds a certain forty acres of land in the oil district of Kern County for twenty-five thousand dollars. Although it is not so specified in the contract, which calls directly for the sale of the land as distinguished from a sale of the defendant’s title, the land…