Kirby v. Bergfield

This is an action for specific performance of a contract for the purchase and sale of real estate. The trial court entered a decree ordering the specific performance of the contract and the defendant sellers have appealed.

Following negotiations initiated by two representatives of the sellers several weeks before, the parties reached an oral agreement for the purchase and sale of a 9,040-acre ranch located in Dawes ¡County, Nebraska. The following day, August 8, 1967, the written contract was prepared by the sellers’ attorney, and signed by all of the parties.

The total purchase price was…