84 A.D.2d 806 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1981
In an action, inter alia, for specific performance of a contract to sell real estate, defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Underwood, J.), dated March 9, 1981, which denied, without prejudice to renewal, defendants’ motions for summary judgment. Grder modified, on the law, by deleting the provision denying the motion of defendants Frost and substituting a provision granting their motion and dismissing the complaint as against them. As so modified, order affirmed, without costs or disbursements. The pertinent facts are not in dispute. Plaintiff contracted to buy certain real property owned by the Frosts. When plaintiff could not get the required mortgage commitment, the Frosts sent plaintiff a written offer to take back a purchase-money mortgage on the property. Plaintiff orally accepted this offer, but a closing date was not specified. When plaintiff was unable to close by the date the Frosts requested, the Frosts notified plaintiff that they considered him to be in breach of contract. The Frosts’ attorney then sent plaintiff’s attorney a check in the amount of plaintiff’s down payment and enclosed a letter which unequivocally stated that acceptance of the payment