McDonald v. Cosman

¶1 The Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County, granted Sam E. McDonald summary judgment and awarded him specific performance in this action to enforce a purchase option in a lease agreement. The lessors, Elbert H. Cosman and Olive Lockie, appeal. We affirm and remand with instructions.

‘1[2 The issue is whether the District Court erred in ruling that the terms of the option to purchase were sufficiently clear and unambiguous to compel specific performance.

¶3 In 1977, the predecessors in interest of the parties to this action entered into a twenty-five-year lease on real…