Parks v. Venters Oil Company

The question presented is whether defendant, under the provisions of Section 4, had the right and option, at any time during the term of the lease, to purchase the property from plaintiffs upon payment of $10,000.00 as purchase price therefor.

“Parties have the legal right to make their own contract, and if the contract is clearly expressed, it must be enforced as it is written. Brock v. Porter, 220 N.C. 28, 16 S.E. 2d 410. ‘The contract is to be interpreted as written.’ Jon es v. Realty Co., 226 N.C. 303, 305, 37 S.E. 2d 906, 907. The ‘only office of judicial construction is to remove doubt…