More than seven years after a $4 million real estate deal collapsed in south DeKalb County, a jury ruled against the would-be buyers’ claims that they were entitled to a refund of $60,000 in earnest money. Instead, the verdict in effect awarded $142,000 to the sellers’ real estate broker, who had brought a countersuit against the buyers for his unpaid commission.
“It was a fun case to try,” said R. Kyle Williams of Decatur’s Williams Teusink, who represented the broker, Jeff Vines, in litigation that “kept doing down the rabbit hole.”
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