Foray v. Bejcek

1 Citing case

  1. Swiss Bank Corporation v. Dresser Industries

    141 F.3d 689 (7th Cir. 1998)   Cited 13 times
    Finding that under Delaware law the fact that the expiration date of a warrant occurred on a holiday did not extend the expiration date

    Other statutes expressly or by implication excuse the nonperformance of contracts on Sunday without prohibiting Sunday performance. See, e.g., Flowers v. Provident Life Accident Ins. Co., 713 S.W.2d 69 (Tenn. 1986); Foray v. Bejcek, 614 P.2d 1090 (Okla. 1980); Allstate Ins. Co. v. Stephens, 238 S.E.2d 382 (Ga. 1977); First National Bank v. Mobil Oil Corp., 538 P.2d 919, 923 (Ore. 1975); Watson v. Kresse, 130 N.W.2d 602, 606 (N. Dak. 1964). Delaware has no statute that excuses Sunday nonperformance expressly, and we can find no case in which a Delaware court has construed a statute of the state to excuse such nonperformance by implication. But in the wake or under the influence of the statutory movement, a common law rule allowing such an excuse emerged.