Court Opinion

ID: 9858740
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 16:35:38.385612+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:55:41.625843
License: Public Domain

PRICE, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
I regret that I cannot agree to the disposition made of this case. In my opinion the judgment of the trial court gave the appellee an option of something over six months to purchase this property. In order for the appellee to acquire title to this property he must comply with the conditions imposed by the judgment of the trial court. Bennett was specifically ordered to pay into the registry of the court by March 27, 1950, $15,859.53. When Bennett did this, under the decree he acquired title to the property. In my opinion -he could not acquire title to the property save by paying into the registry of the court the amount decreed by the judgment. In my opinion Bennett by his failure to comply with the judgment lost all right to acquire this property, or in any event we should not give the appellee an additional option within which time he may or may not elect to acquire this proper*273ty. Appellee should not be allowed to benefit by a judgment with which he has failed to comply.
In my opinion the appeal by appellant on a cost bond did not relieve appellee from the condition placed on him by the judgment in order to acquire the title.