Cook v. Dane

Citations

• 43 Wash. 588
• 86 P. 947

Syllabus

<p>Srecific Performance — 'By Vendee — Failure to Perform — Adverse Claimant. A purchaser of real estate, the title to which was to be perfected by the foreclosure of a mortgage, who agreed to defend the adverse claims and to pay installments of the price and all taxes and assessments against the property, is not entitled to a specific performance where he failed to make such payments, but took the position of an adverse claimant and only tendered the installments when long past due,.and the taxes (which had been redeemed by the vendor) after the vendor had perfected the title and it had been determined that the adverse claim was invalid.</p>