Walker v. McMurchie

Citations

• 61 Wash. 489
• 112 P. 500
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1107

Syllabus

<p>Vendor and Purchaser — Contract—Nonpayment—Forfeiture— Waiver. Where a vendor lived near the land and knew of improvements being made, and took no steps to obtain any payment of principal or interest upon the contract for over three years, equity will not enforce the right of forfeiture until demand is made for payment or reasonable notice is given; and there is no such notice, either by demand for interest, or by notice of forfeiture given to the original vendee, after knowledge that he had assigned the contract to a company, then in possession and managed by another, to whom waiver of forfeiture had been given.</p>