Court Opinion

ID: 9543099
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:42:07.093456+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:09:40.955925
License: Public Domain

WADE, Justice
(concurring).
With grave doubts I concur. I have no difficulty in concluding that J. Fred Daynes agreed to purchase this stock jointly with his two sons who he thought were joining in that transaction. My difficulty is in determining that there was a meeting of the minds whereby he agreed to purchase the property alone without his two sons joining in the deal. It is clear that both the respondent Taylor and the appellant J. Fred Daynes thought that if there was a sale at all it Was to the three of them jointly and not to appellant alone, for they discussed only such a sale on July 20th. On July 21st appellant acknowledged that the three had purchased the stock, and in February respondent endorsed the stock certificate to the three of them and finally sued all three of them and not merely the appellant alone. The fact that a person agrees to purchase property jointly with two other persons does not seem to me to be equivalent to agreeing to purchase such property individually, where the other persons are found to have not agreed to join in such purchase. I therefore entertain grave doubts that the evidence is sufficient to sustain a finding that the appellant purchased this stock.
WOLFE, J., concurs in the results.