Conley v. Downing

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

This is an action for specific performance. Appellant Mary Downing appeals from a judgment and decree of the Pine County District Court, Tenth Judicial District, granting respondent Perry Conley’s motion for summary judgment, and ordering specific performance, and from the court’s subsequent order denying Downing’s motion to vacate the judgment.

In 1972, Mary Downing, who at that time was 56 years old and recently widowed, sold 35 acres of land to Perry Conley by contract for deed for $5,500. The contract required Conley to make a $1,500 downpayment and annual payments of…