Onanian v. Leggat

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, although the defendant-executor was under a duty to obtain the highest possible price, he was not excused from performing an existing agreement when he subsequently received a higher offer than the plaintiffs
• fundamental rule is that unaccepted offer may be withdrawn at any time before acceptance
• “The fiduciary duty of an executor ... is owed to and enforceable by the beneficiaries of the estate----”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).