McEnroe v. Morgan

SWANSTROM, Judge.

This is an appeal from a district court judgment which denied rescission of a land sale contract by purchasers who had defaulted. The judgment allowed the vendors (respondents) to retain as liquidated damages the equity in a home which the purchasers had conveyed to vendors as a down payment. In addition, the district court awarded the vendors compensatory and punitive damages against appellants for malicious interference with the contract between the vendors and the purchasers. We affirm in part, reverse in part and remand.

We discuss three issues in this appeal. First, did…