Yarnall v. Knickerbocker Co.

— September 27, 1919, the respondent, Yarnall, and the appellant, Knickerbocker Company, entered into a written contract whereby the appellant agreed to sell, and the respondent agreed to purchase, a tract of land described as follows:

“North half (N%) of Lot Eighteen, (18) and the North half (N%) of the West one-half of Lot Nineteen (19) Block C, Hartings Addition to the city of Seattle, King county, state of Washington, as per recorded plat thereof in the office of the auditor of said King county, Washington.”

The agreed purchase price of the land was twenty-one hundred dollars. Of this sum…