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Property Law and Real Estate

1960

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Agency -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Warren A. Seavey Oct 1960

Agency -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Warren A. Seavey

Vanderbilt Law Review

In Richardson v. Snipes' both parties to an exchange of land employed the plaintiff, the contract providing that the defendant would pay no commission unless the transfer was completed. The other party satisfied the conditions imposed by the defendant, who, however, refused to go through with the exchange. The court properly reversed judgment for the defendant; but the result should not have turned upon the finding of bad faith of the defendant, as the court held. The plaintiff had performed his undertaking which was to provide one who would exchange titles and who would have gone through with the transaction …


Personal Property And Sales -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Gilbert S. Merrit, Jr. Oct 1960

Personal Property And Sales -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, Gilbert S. Merrit, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

A foreigner given to rash generalizations would quickly conclude upon reading this year's sales and personal property cases that the three most flourishing and litigation-producing institutions in Tennessee are the automobile, the General Motors Acceptance Corporation and bootlegging. The automobile is responsible for all five of the cases covered in this survey; in four of the five the General Motors Acceptance Corporation is the defendant; and two of the five grow out of bootlegging activities.