Legal Opinion
Estate of Osborn Ex Rel. Osborn v. Kemp
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided March 25, 2010No. 545, 2009PublishedCited by 605 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEELE, Chief Justice.
Michael Kemp signed a holographic real property sales contract with Lucille Osborn, and made monthly payments while living in her beach house for over 20 years. Osborn’s estate asserts that Kemp signed a document for a leasehold interest, and appeals the Vice Chancellor’s order to sell the house to him. Because the contract unambiguously expresses a purchase agreement; Kemp was ready, willing, and able to perform; and the balance of the equities tips toward specific performance, we AFFIRM.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURE POSTURE
Osborn lived in Wilmington and had a beach house in…
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