Johnson v. Lara

Citations

• 50 Wash. 368
• 97 P. 231
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 738

Syllabus

<p>Specific Performance — Vendor and Purchaser — Contracts—Termination — Waiver of Rights by Rejecting Title. Where a contract to convey land provided that, if the vendors could not make a marketable title within a specified time after objections pointed out by the vendee, “the contract shall terminate and be at an end,” the vendee is not entitled to specific performance after refusing to accept the title offered and insisting upon objections to the title in particulars which the vendors could not and would not make good, six months after the vendors had, for that reason, rescinded the contract; since his right to specific performance terminated on his rejection of the title and rescission of the contract.</p>