Hemingway v. Shatney

Defendants William “Ted” and Ernestine Shatney appeal from a judgment entered against them and against Ella Shatney (“seller”) arising from her agreement to sell certain property to plaintiffs and her subsequent sale of the same property to defendants. We reverse.

Planning to move into a nursing home, seller offered to sell a parcel of property with a residential trailer at a favorable price to plaintiff Donald Lowell and his business partner, plaintiff Raymond Hemingway. They entered into a purchase and sale contract with her and paid her a $100 deposit on August 26, 1983, with closing to…