Close v. Blumenthal

CROCKETT, Chief Justice.

Defendants appeal from a judgment for specific performance of an earnest money agreement for the purchase of real property.

On the 28th day of April, 1959, at Provo, Utah, defendants Harold and Virginia Blu-menthal, in connection with buying a home, signed a document entitled “Earnest Money Receipt and Offer to Purchase,”'which was also signed by the plaintiff, Wayne C. Close, *53as seller. The agreement called for $500 at the time it was signed, which was paid, and for the remaining $25,500 of the purchase •price to he paid by June 1, 1959. The defendants did not pay this…