Stone-Fox, Inc. v. Vandehey Development Co.

Plaintiff seeks specific performance of an earnest money agreement to purchase a parcel of real property called "Family Acres,” located in Washington County. Appealing from a decree for defendants, plaintiff assigns as error the trial court’s findings (1) that the evidence was insufficient to find a partnership existed between the owners of the property; (2) that one of the owners was not authorized to bind the other to the sale, and (3) that the earnest money agreement was not a final contract between the parties. Our review is de novo.

On August 25, 1978, Vem Vandehey signed on behalf of…