A B.C. Supreme Court judge has scrapped a purported handwritten real estate contract that would have seen a strata commercial property sold for much less than the seller’s $550,000 asking price.

Abdul Sabour Mohammad Latif and Haris Azimuddin had claimed that the document was proof that defendant Chandu Nair had agreed to sell his Surrey, B.C., auto body shop to them for $450,000. Nair had argued that he never agreed to sell the property and signed what he believed was a receipt for a $10,000 deposit on top of a previous $15,000 deposit.

Nair told the court that the document originally only had information about the deposits and no reference to the $450,000 price to which allegedly agreed. Justice Janet Winteringham found the plaintiffs’ testimony to “lack credibility and reliability,” according to her decision posted on the B.C. courts’ website.

Winteringham agreed with Nair’s contention that he did not sign a contract.

The 1,202-square-foot property is located in Surrey’s Newton area.