Joslyn v. Irwin-Dick Co.

In this action for specific performance findings were made in favor of defendant and plaintiffs appeal from the order denying their motion for a new trial.

An earnest money contract, dated March 21, 1923, was signed within a day or two of its date by the representatives of two estates holding an undivided three-fourths interest in the property, and by the vendee, the defendant. The representatives of the estate owning the one-fourth interest personally owned the other one-fourth, but did not sign the contract as such owners until June 14, 1923. The property concerned is a strip of ground 22…