Court Opinion

ID: 9807529
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:08:25.854561+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:41:34.586085
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Stacy, O. J.,
concurs in the result, but does not assent to the suggestion that the defendants obligated themselves to sell within a reasonable time or to exercise due care to this end, unless the whole contract is to be interpreted as meaning, what it does not express, that such was within the reasonable contemplation of the parties. Plaintiff’s intestate was content with the covenant that his interest should become “due and payable when all or any part of the lands are sold,” thus placing upon himself, or the plaintiff, the necessity of showing, as a condition precedent to the right of recovery, that the defendants had arbitrarily refused to sell in the face of a reasonable offer, or in some other way had fraudulently sought to defeat the plaintiff’s rights. Ingle v. Green, ante, 149.
Clarkson, J., concurs in this opinion.