Thompson v. Coe
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit for the specific performance of the defendant’s covenant to sell her real estate to the plaintiff, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Webb, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant.
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Suit for the specific performance of the defendant’s covenant to sell her real estate to the plaintiff, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Webb, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant. The defendant leased 378 Elm Street, New Haven, to plaintiff for two years from May 1st, 1917. A provision of the lease was as follows: “Provided, however, and it is further agreed, that if the said rent shall remain unpaid 15 days after the same shall become payable as aforesaid, or if the said party of the second part shall not perform…
1Opinion of the CourtGager, J.
This cash turns primarily on the answers to the questions whether the plaintiff exercised his option to purchase within the time provided by the contract, and whether the plaintiff had, upon the facts, any equitable right to the exercise of his option in case he did not do it technically within the term of the contract.
The plaintiff claims that the time within which he could exercise the option, without regard to the forfeiture provision of the lease, did not expire until the expiration of the year for which the lease was originally given. Whether the option to purchase contained in a lease…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Sheets v. SeldenSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Kann v. KingSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Mactier v. OsbornMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Gordon v. RichardsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Garland v. GainesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1901
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