Legal Opinion
Ross v. Harding
Washington Supreme Court
Decided April 16, 1964No. 36704PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
James, J. †
The appellant and the respondents undertook the accomplishment of what must have seemed to them an uncomplicated business transaction. Involved was the sale of an almost extinct species of American free enterprise — a Mom and Pop grocery store. Unhappily, they now find that their efforts have brought them into court in a difficult and complex field of law. Their “legal rights” must be determined by a consideration of the law of contracts and specifically by the application of “interpretive rules which are extremely subtle and artificial.” 12 Am. Jur. § 295, p. 848.
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