Crowell v. Williams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reversing state court decision that denied plaintiff’s attempt to recover money paid under contract that defendant had effectively rescinded due to plaintiff’s nonperformance
• reversing state court decision that denied plaintiff’s attempt to recover money paid under contract that defendant had effectively rescinded due to plaintiff’s nonperformance
• reversing state court decision that denied plaintiff’s attempt to recover money paid under contract that defendant had effectively rescinded due to plaintiff’s nonperformance
• seller could not rescind sales contract and also retain partial payments made by the buyer
• installment sale for real property is \a conditional sale in which the buyer makes a down payment followed by payments and the seller retains title until all payments have been received\
• “Unless otherwise provided by the contract, the seller is required to return any purchase monies paid where the transaction is in effect canceled or rescinded by the buyer’s default in failing to pay the entire purchase price and the seller reasserts possession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).