Champion v. Whaley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• party to a contract cannot take advantage of the uncertainty created by his own wrongdoing
• “The broker and the owner may . . . make the broker’s right to the commission contingent upon the occurrence of certain conditions.”
• once a plaintiff shows that defendant’s actions “substantially contributed” to the nonoccurrence of a contractual condition, burden shifts to defendant to show that condition would not have occurred regardless of prevention
• “The fact that no duty of performance can arise until the happening of a condition does not make the existence of the contract depend upon its happening, unless the parties so intend.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).