Merritt v. McLane

Citations

• 91 Wash. 99
• 157 P. 220
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 1011

Syllabus

<p>Appeal — Review—Harmless Error. Error in the admission of improper evidence is harmless in a case tried de novo on appeal.</p> <p>Vendor and Purchaser — Contract—Time for Delivery of Deed. Where defendant admits that he was to furnish plaintiff a deed, although the contract failed to provide therefor, the court is justified in finding that he was to furnish a deed within a reasonable time.</p> <p>Same — Contract—Construction — Performance — Reasonable Time for Deed. Where defendants, being the holders of a contract for county lands which they had contracted to convey to N. & H., assigned the latter contract to plaintiff, the assignment reciting that the defendants would perfect title to the lands and pay the amounts due on the contract, and defendants admitted that they were to make deed to N. & H. (then in default) or to plaintiff if N. & H. failed to perform, the plaintiff is entitled to a deed from defendants within a reasonable time, and nine months after demand for a deed is such reasonable time.</p>