Michael v. Towers

This is an appeal from a decree entered by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, sitting in equity, which rescinded two contracts for the sale of real estate. The chancellor found, and we think quite properly, that the contract purchaser had failed to act with the diligence and expedition which the contracts required.

On 19 August 1964, Mrs. Bessie F. Brown, one of the plaintiffs below and an appellee here, entered into a contract with Irving Karnins, one of the defendants below, under which Mrs. Brown agreed to sell 34.29 acres of land in Prince George’s County for $203,000. The…