Continental Oil Company v. McNAIR REALTY COMPANY

THE HONORABLE PHILIP C. DUNCAN, District Judge, sitting in place of Mr. Justice Bottomly,

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment granting plaintiff specific performance of an option to purchase. For convenience, the plaintiff and respondent will generally be referred to as Continental, and the defendant and appellant as McNair.

On February 17, 1953, one Margaret Conrad Parker, of Kalispell, as trustee under a trust created by the will of Alice Agnes Adams, deceased, leased certain real property in Great Falls to Continental for ten years from April 1, 1954, at a…