Case ID: ga-app_27/html/0262-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Broyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

12449.
    Palefsky et al. v. Karpf.
    Decided June 30, 1921.
    Complaint; from city court of Savannah — Judge Freeman. March 14, 1921.
    The petition is as follows:
    " Georgia, Chatham County.
    "To the City Court of Savannah:
    “ The petition of B. Karpf respectfully shows:
    " 1st: That M. Kraft, S. Kraft, and H. Palefsky are residents of Chatham County, Georgia, and are here made defendants in this action.
    “ 2nd: That your petitioner was, on or about 5th day of Junc, 1920, approached by the said defendants and asked if he would join them in the purchase of lots 9 and 10 Elbert Ward of the City of Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, from Mrs. Rosa A. Donnelly, for the consideration of ninety thousand ($90,000.00) dollars. Petitioner replied to the defendants that he would do so, provided an arrangement was made whereby his interest in the property would alone be responsible for the liability incurred in the purchase of the property; that is, that a corporation or a limited partnership should be formed to handle the proposition. This was agreed to by the defendants, and petitioner paid to defendants as his share of the money to bind the bargain for the purchase of said property the sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars. Thereupon a sales ticket for said property was executed with the said Mrs. Donnelly for petitioner and defendants in the name of the defendant, M. Kraft. This sales ticket is in the possession of defendants, and they are hereby notified to produce it in court.
   Broyles, C. J.

The petition set out a cause of action, and the court did not err in overruling the general demurrer interposed.

Judgment affirmed.

Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., concur.

“ 3rd: Petitioner shows that a part of the said property was occupied by one D. Zoslow. This part of the property is a store building known as No. 216 West Broad Street. The defendants represented to plaintiff that the said Zoslow desired to purchase and would purchase that part of the said property on which the said store was located, at and for the sum of $30,000.00, and offered to sell to your petitioner their interest in the said sales ticket executed by Mrs. Donnelly to Mr. Karpf for the sum of $3,000.00 and the refund to them of the money they .had paid Mrs. Donnelly as earnest money, to wit: fifteen hundred ($1500.00) dollars. Your petitioner accepted the said proposition, and on June 14, 1920, the same was reduced to writing, which writing all of the parties signed; and petitioner thereupon paid to the defendants four thousand, five hundred ($4,500.00) dollars, that is three thousand ($3,000.00) dollars, the agreed purchase-price for the sales ticket and fifteen hundred ($1500.00) dollars, the sum the defendants had paid to Mrs. Donnelly at the time of the execution of the sales ticket. This writing expressly provided that if the said Zoslow did not buy the store, the full amount of four thousand, five hundred ($4,500.00) dollars would be refunded to petitioner within^two weeks. A copy of this written agreement is hereto attached as Exhibit * A.’

“4th: Your petitioner shows that the said Zoslow refused to° buy the said store, that more than two weeks have elapsed, and that the said defendants have purchased the said property for themselves from the said Mrs. Donnelly, and they refuse to refund to your petitioner the sum of money paid them by petitioner as aforesaid, although demand has been made upon them for the same. Petitioner alleges that defendants are indebted to him in the sum of four thousand, five hundred ($4,500.00) dollars, as follows: ($1500.00) fifteen hundred dollars earnest money refunded, and three thousand ($3,000.00) dollars purchase-price of sales ticket as described in the third paragraph hereof.

“ Whereupon petitioner prays that he may have judgment against the said defendants in the said sum of four thousand, five hundred ($4,500.00) dollars; and that process may issue requiring the defendants to be and appear at the next term of the City Court of Savannah, Georgia, to answer this complaint.

[Signed] Lawrence & 'Abrahams,

David S. Atkinson,

Petitioner’s Attorneys.”

The contract attached to the petition as an exhibit is as follows:

“ Savannah, Ga., June 14th, 1920.

“ For the consideration of $3,000.00 (three thousand dollars) in cash paid to us by Mr. B. Karpf, we, the undersigned, hereby transfer our rights in a certain sale ticket of property of Mrs. Donnelly lot 9-10 Elbert Ward, purchased from Mrs. Rosa Donnelly on June 5, 1920. If Zoslow does not buy his store, full amount of refund to B. Karpf, $4,500.00 (four thousand five hundred dollars) in two weeks.”

Signed by Morris Kraft, H. Palefsky, Sam Kraft, and B. Karpf.

McIntire, Walsh & Bernstein, for plaintiffs in error.

David S. Atkinson, Lawrence & Abrahams, contra.