Hodges v. Miller

Since the overruling of the original motions for rehearing (238 S. W. 722), on February 25th of the current year, our Supreme Court, in the case of Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Patton (Tex. Com. App.) 238 S. W. 202, has, in effect, held that when one who grants an option to another for a fixed period of time himself wrongfully prevents an exercise of the option during that period he must give a reasonable time for its exercise after any obstruction which he has interposed has been removed. In Elkhart Carworks Co. v. Ellis, 113 Ind. 215, 15 N. E. 249, the following was said:

“If the grantor…