Court Opinion

ID: 4717059
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-12 00:54:13.799516+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:07:29.408420
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
On March 10, 1952, defendants entered into a written contract to sell a tract of land to the plaintiffs. Defendants breached their contract, and an action for specific performance was tried on September 29, 1952.
The trial court entered a decree for specific performance of the contract, and for $379.64 for the net rents and profits of the land, of which the plaintiffs had been deprived up to the time of the judgment.
The defendants appealed, and failed to offer this court any legal reason why the decree should be reversed.
RCW 4.88.200 [cf. Rem. Rev. Stat., § 1738] provides:
“Upon the affirmance of any judgment or order for the payment of money, the collection of which, in whole or in part, has been stayed by an appeal bond, the court may award to the respondent damages upon the amount superseded; and, if satisfied by the record that the appeal was taken for delay only, the court must so award such damages not exceeding fifteen percent of the sum by such judgment or order recovered or directed to be paid, as will effectually tend to prevent the taking of appeals for delay only.” (Italics ours.)
Being satisfied by the record that the appeal was taken for delay only, this court awards the plaintiffs additional damages in the amount of fifteen per cent of $379.64.
As thus modified, the decree of the trial court is affirmed.