Minaker
Minaker v. Sunset Building & Real Estate Co.
Opinion
Lead Opinion
This is an action brought by A. J. Minaker against the Sunset Building & Real Estate Company, Interurban Real Estate Company, and Hugo D. Newhouse, for the specific performance of a contract alleged and shown to have been entered into between A. J. Minaker and the Sunset Building & Real Estate Company (or that corporation under another name), for the purchase of certain lots, a portion of a larger subdivided tract of land, for the sum of one thousand and seventy-five dollars, plaintiff alleging that he had completed and complied with the terms of that contract and that he was entitled to have his contract specifically enforced, not only against the immediate vendor named in that contract, but also against the subsequent incumbents and. purchasers, named also as defendants in this action.
The first point made by the appellants is that the complaint is defective in that it does appear sufficiently from the face of the complaint that the contract is a fair and equitable contract; or, in other words, such a contract as a court of equity will enforce. The complaint sets up in haeo verba the contract itself, and further states that the purchase price of the property stipulated in that…