Lively v. Ridgewood Construction Corp.

DOERNER, Commissioner.

This case originated in a Magistrate Court of St. Louis County by the filing of a petition in which it was alleged that on September 15, 1960, plaintiffs paid to the defendant General Title Service Corporation the sum of $440, in escrow, “to purchase from defendant Ridgewood Construction Corporation through Humfeld Realty Corporation as agents, certain real estate known as lot 12 in Assumption Subdivision * * *.” It was further alleged that the house had never been completed or built, and that plaintiffs were entitled to have their earnest money refunded out of escrow.…