Stone v. Stone

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that promisor’s inability to raise funds from an anticipated sale of land failed to discharge his contractual obligations
• “Mr. Stone’s financial inability to settle according to the contract terms is insufficient to bring into operation the doctrine of impossibility of performance.”
• “The transactions provided for by the contract are the payment of a sum of money and the purchase of a certain land tract in lieu of periodic alimony. By their nature, they are still capable of being performed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• East Capitol View Community Development Corp. v. Robinson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2008-02-07· cited 17×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Levine v. Rendler
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-06-03· cited 55×
• Heinmuller v. Heinmuller
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1970-05-05· cited 21×
• Pumphrey v. Pumphrey
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1971-02-17· cited 21×
• Northampton Corp. v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-12-07· cited 14×
• Acme Moving & Storage Corp. v. Bower
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1973-07-09· cited 11×
• Brown v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-12-07· cited 9×
• Baldi Construction Engineering, Inc. v. Wheel Awhile, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1971-12-13· cited 8×
• Jeffrey Sneider-Maryland, Inc. v. LaVay
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-10-03· cited 8×
• Saggese v. Saggese
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-05-19· cited 7×