Opinion ID: 1089444
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Heading: plaintiffs' tender of the cashier's check

Text: McReynolds contends that by submitting a cashier's check for payment of the $26,500  the sales price of the realty under the option contract  Jackson failed to deliver cash. We disagree. In 86 C.J.S. Tender § 26 (1954), it is stated: Cashier's checks. A cashier's check may constitute a sufficient tender where no objection is made on this ground. Recognizing the fact that McReynolds's lawyer expressed his concern as to whether delivery of a cashier's check constituted sufficient tender of currency, under these circumstances, we cannot equate this with the making of an objection to this form of payment. In light of the facts that 1) all parties were aware of the $26,500 purchase price; 2) the common realities of the situation dictate that payment be made by check and not in cash; and 3) the objection was not intended as affording Jackson the opportunity of substituting cash for the tendered cashier's check, we hold that by tendering the cashier's check, Jackson did tender money for payment of the realty. After considering each of Appellees' other arguments in support of the trial court's decree denying specific performance, we find them without merit. We recognize, and reaffirm, the oft-stated proposition of equity jurisprudence laid down in Wilder v. Reed, 216 Ala. 29, 30, 112 So. 312 (1927): [I]n cases of specific performance complainant must establish his case by such proof as to produce clear conviction in the judicial mind. `Courts, in such cases, will not grope their way on inconclusive probabilities.' 216 Ala. at 30, 112 So. 312. Where, as here, however, the evidence, which in all material aspects is without dispute, establishes a clear right to specific performance, we are compelled to reverse the judgment denying relief and to remand the cause with instructions to enter an appropriate order granting specific performance. REVERSED AND REMANDED WITH INSTRUCTIONS. MADDOX, SHORES and BEATTY, JJ., concur. TORBERT, C.J., concurs specially.