Brink v. Wynnewood Co.

Toal, J.,

Plaintiffs filed an action in assumpsit in the sum of $150. The action resulted from a contract between plaintiffs and defendant by the terms of which defendant had agreed to build a house for plaintiffs. The original contract price was $14,950, later increased under the terms of an escalator clause in the contract to $15,450. Before settlement was made and a deed executed and delivered defendant sent a letter dated December 26, 1950, to plaintiffs notifying plaintiffs that Lower Merion Township had imposed a transfer tax of one per cent and that the cost of the property to…