Morgan
Morgan v. Dibble
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Waste, J.
This is an action to revise and specifically perform an agreement for the sale and purchase, or, more properly speaking, an exhange, of real estate, and for damages, in the event specific performance cannot he had. Plaintiffs, so they allege, agreed to sell, and the defendants agreed to buy, a tract of land in Imperial County, and certain shares of stock of Imperial Water Company, No. 1, located on said land and appurtenant thereto, for the sum of thirty thousand seven hundred dollars. As part payment of the purchase price the defendants agreed to convey to plaintiffs real property in San Diego County, which plaintiffs agreed to accept at the mutually agreed price of six thousand dollars. As another part payment of the purchase price defendants agreed to assume a first mortgage of five thousand dollars, payable on or before August 1, 1914, with interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, which plaintiffs agreed to execute upon the Imperial County property. As the balance of the purchase price the defendants agreed to assume a second mortgage on the same property, made payable to Bert Morgan, one of the plaintiffs, in the sum of nineteen thousand seven…