Horn v. Wright

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Emmett J. Arnold III was one of five heirs at law of Emmett J. Arnold, Jr. and one of two co-administrators appointed to administer the latter’s estate on his death. He informed the appellant Horn, a real estate broker, that the estate property was for sale, and, upon Horn offering him a contract of sale signed by the appellee R. K. Wright as purchaser accepted the offer therein contained, signing himself as “Emmett Arnold, Co-Executor, Estate of Emmett J. Arnold, Jr.”

1. Wright, who had paid Horn the $5,000 earnest money required under the contract, decided not to close…