Contract – Residential Construction – Specific Performance – Mutuality Of Remedy 
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Published: November 23, 2009
Where a home buyer seeks rescission and cancellation of a contract to build a new home, and defendant contractor has counterclaimed for specific performance, a Loudoun County Circuit Court denies the buyer’s motion for partial summary judgment, without prejudice to raise the issue of want of mutuality of remedy at trial.
Plaintiff buyer argues that the ...
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