Daum v. Lehde

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The plaintiffs, Joseph Daum and Bernard Freedman, having agreed by contract dated August 1, 1956 with the defendant, Pendleton E. Lehde, to purchase on or before ninety days the latter’s property at 334-336 North Rampart Street in New Orleans for the price of $17,500, and the improvements at that location having been partially destroyed by fire on September 26, 1956, prior to the consummation of the sale, instituted the instant suit for specific performance, 1 making these alternative demands: (a) to have defendant deliver to them the property in substantially the…