Snyder v. Bowen

BECK, Judge:

The issue is whether an option clause for the purchase of land contained in a partnership agreement is valid. We find the option is valid and therefore affirm the grant of specific performance by the trial court.

The source of the present litigation is a partnership agreement which Appellant Bert A. Bowen and Appellee Donald V. Snyder entered into in 1969. In essence, each man paid $6,000 to acquire a one-half interest in the part*50nership which held title to slightly more than 1400 acres of unimproved land on Jack’s Mountain in Mifflin County. Paragraph 14 of the partnership…