Soffe v. Ridd

HOWE, Justice:

Lorna Soffe, the plaintiff below, appeals from a judgment granted on defendants’ Donald and Nancy Ridd’s counterclaim. The only issue raised by Soffe is whether the court committed error in awarding judgment to the Ridds.

Soffe sold a house on a .70 acre lot to the Ridds under a modified Uniform Real Estate Contract and then sued to re-take possession of the property and terminate the contract when the buyers defaulted. The buyers counterclaimed seeking to avoid a contractually imposed forfeiture of all the monies they had paid under the contract on the ground that such a…