Elsasser v. M.P.R. Construction Corp.

This suit was brought by Fred Elsasser against M.P.R. Construction Corp. (MPR) to quiet title to certain real property which was the subject of an earnest money agreement between Elsasser as seller and MPR as buyer. MPR filed a counter suit for specific performance of the agreement, which the trial court granted. Elsasser appeals.

The subject of the agreement and of this litigation is a 5.91 acre parcel in the Mt. Scott area of Portland which was part of a larger tract that Elsasser owned, or was acquiring, and for which he had obtained preliminary approval as a Planned Unit Development (PUD).…