Opinion ID: 1382275
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The initial meeting between the parties on May 20, 1976.

Text: According to plaintiff, defendant Joseph Oliver stopped by his ranch on May 20, 1976, and said that he [Oliver] was interested in selling the ranch and asked would I be interested in buying it, and I said `yes'. Mr. Southworth also testified that he thought I would be interested in the land and that Clyde [Holliday, also a neighbor] would be interested in the permits and that I told him that I was very interested in the land   . Plaintiff Southworth also testified that at that time defendant Oliver showed him a map, showing land that he understood them to offer for sale; that there was no discussion at that time of price or terms of sale, or whether the sale of the land was contingent on sale of any of the permits, but that the conversation terminated with the understanding: That he would develop and determine value and price and I would make an investigation to determine whether or not I could find the money and get everything arranged for a purchase. In other words, he was going to do A and then I would B. According to plaintiff Southworth, defendant Oliver said that when he determined the value of the property he would send that information to Southworth so as to give him notice of what he wanted for the land, but did not say that he was also going to give that same information to Mr. Holliday, although he did say that he planned to talk to Clyde [Holliday] about permits, with the result that plaintiff knew that Oliver might very well be    talking to Clyde about the same thing he talked to you [plaintiff] about and give that information to Clyde Holliday as well as yourself. According to defendant Joseph Oliver, the substance of that initial conversation with plaintiff was as follows:    I told him we were going to condense our ranch down and sell some property and that we were in the process of trying to get some figures from the Assessor on it to determine what we wanted to sell and what we might want to do. Whenever we got this information together we were going to send it to him and some of my neighbors and give them first chance at it.    Mr. Oliver also testified that plaintiff said that he was interested; that he had a map with him; that he mentioned to plaintiff that he was going to sell some permits, but that there was no discussion about the permits going with the land at that time and that he [Oliver] talked along the lines that Clyde [Holliday] would probably be interested in those permits. On cross-examination Mr. Oliver also answered in the affirmative a question to the effect that the property which he and Mr. Southworth delineated on the map during that conversation was the property that he finally decided to sell and made the general offering to the four neighbors. Plaintiff also testified that on May 26, 1976, he called Clyde Holliday to ask if he was interested in buying the land and Mr. Holliday said no, that he was interested only in the permits, but would be interested in trading some other land for some of the land plaintiff was buying from defendants.