Givens v. Boutwell

COMBS, Judge.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from the judgment of the Bell Circuit Court entered in a suit for specific performance of an option contract.

On September 3, 1976, appellant granted appellee Alto Boutwell an option to purchase his interest in a tract of land. The contract gave appellee the right to buy the real estate any time prior to November 4, 1976, at 12 o’clock noon, and required ap-*147pellee to either mail or deliver a written acceptance to appellant at his residence in Middlesboro, Kentucky.

Boutwell exercised the option by sending the appellant written notice on October…