Quill v. Jacoby

Citations

• 4 Cal. Unrep. 736
• 37 P. 524
• 1894 Cal. LEXIS 1225

Syllabus

<p>Vendor and Vendee.—In an Action to Rescind a Contract for the sale of land, which provided that the grantor was to build a levee along a river, whether the levee was completed within a reasonable time is a question for the court sitting as a jury; and, in the absence of any proof of damages to the grantee from failure to complete the same, a finding that it was completed within a reasonable time will not be disturbed, though the work was not completed for four years.1</p> <p>Vendor and Vendee — Construction of Contract — Levee.— Where a contract for the conveyance of land facing on a street provides that a levee shall be constructed on the “west side of the said tract,” which side faces a street, the construction of the levee in the center of the street is a compliance with the provision.</p>