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Willard v. Mercer

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Feb 8, 1983
58 N.Y.2d 840 (N.Y. 1983)

Opinion

Argued January 6, 1983

Decided February 8, 1983

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, J. RAYMOND AMYOT, J.

Edward J. Grogan for appellants.

Thomas D. Latin for respondents.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

In this case, in which time was not made of the essence in the contract of purchase and sale, the prospective purchasers neither sought to fix a law day for the closing of title nor afforded the sellers a reasonable opportunity to remedy a concededly curable defect of title before repudiating the contract. In this circumstance the buyers were not entitled to a refund of their down payment.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG, MEYER and SIMONS concur.

Order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.


Summaries of

Willard v. Mercer

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Feb 8, 1983
58 N.Y.2d 840 (N.Y. 1983)
Case details for

Willard v. Mercer

Case Details

Full title:WALTER J. WILLARD, SR., et al., Appellants, v. JAMES MERCER et al.…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Feb 8, 1983

Citations

58 N.Y.2d 840 (N.Y. 1983)
460 N.Y.S.2d 18
446 N.E.2d 774

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