Bliss v. Rhodes

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant property owner appeals from a judgment granting specific performance of the sale of his farm land to the plaintiffs based on an offer of purchase. The defendant contends that the remedy was improvidently granted because the offer to purchase contained an insufficient legal description and was otherwise incomplete in its terms; the evidence failed to show payment of earnest money; and under the circumstances surrounding the agreement the court could not equitably order specific performance.

The offer to purchase,…