Hanson v. Gattuso Real Estate

SAMUEL, Judge.

This is a suit for $4,000, the amount of a deposit defendants were obligated to make under a written contract with the plaintiffs, and for an additional $684, allegedly the amount of damages sustained by plaintiffs. The contract is an agreement to sell and purchase (plaintiffs were the vendors and defendants the vendees) a portion of undeveloped land in the City of Kenner. The suit is based on the alleged fact that the defendants refused to take title to the property without legal cause at an act of sale scheduled for December 7, 1970.

The defendants’ answer affirmatively avers…