Great United Realty Co. v. Lewis

This appeal raises the question whether the vendee of a house who made two payments on the purchase price to the vendor, but who subsequently renounced the contract of sale and abandoned possession of the property, is entitled to recover those payments.

By the contract executed on December 2, 1950, Great United Realty Company, Inc., agreed to sell to Lillian F. Lewis the property situated at 1616 North Fulton Avenue in Baltimore, subject to an annual ground rent of $90 to be created, for the sum of $6,950. The vendee paid $25 prior to the execution of the contract, and agreed to pay $675…