Vera Land Co. v. Metcalf

Citations

• 100 Wash. 306
• 170 P. 1012
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 739

Syllabus

<p>Vendor and Purchaser—Contracts—Construction. A contract for the sale of land to one who agreed to irrigate and subdivide it, and resell tracts at not less than $150 per acre, the purchase money to be paid in installments from the receipts from resales, upon monthly accounts, is not a contract of agency, but is one of purchase and sale, which may be forfeited for the vendee’s default; and in the absence of .collusion, the vendor is not responsible for such default to purchasers from the vendee, although it received its share of the money paid' in by them upon their contracts with the vendee.</p>