Rittigstein v. Dignan

Plaintiff sued for the specific performance of a contract to sell real property. Defendant had judgment, from which the plaintiff has appealed on typewritten transcripts.

The contract was in writing upon a form generally used by members of the San Francisco Real Estate Board. When presented to the defendant for signature it read (in part) : “Received from Bruce Painter, hereinafter designated as the purchaser, the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars being deposited on account of Twenty Thousand ($20,000:00) Dollars lawful money of the United States of America, the purchase of the following…