Hansen v. Kernweis

This is an action of contract in which the plaintiff, hereinafter called the “seller”, seeks to recover the sum of $2,000 as liquidated damages from the defendants hereinafter called the “buyers”, because of the alleged breach of a written contract by the buyers to purchase certain real property of the seller. The trial court found for the buyers.. We summarize the pertinent facts found by the court. On December 9,1968, the buyers made an offer to purchase certain real property of the seller, gave the seller’s broker a check for $2,000 to bind the bargain, but told the *25broker that they did…