Twitchell v. Benjamin

Citations

• 51 Wash. 143
• 98 P. 109
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 984

Syllabus

<p>Vendor and Purchaser — Rights of Vendee — Conversion—Removal of Building — Liability. One is liable for a conversion where he was under contract to purchase land and made improvements converting a barn into a dwelling, and' pending efforts to perfect title removed the same and refused to pay therefor or buy the land, after the title was perfected.</p> <p>Same — Defenses—Consent to Removal. In such a case it is’ no defense that the vendor consented to the removal’ of the-barn,-not intending a gift-; as there arose an implied, promise to pay its.value!</p>