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115 Fla. 506

155 So 755

Roxton v. Armstrong

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided June 20, 1934

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1934-06-20

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“the rule that where parties intend that their oral agreements shall be reduced to writing, as the evidence of their terms of agreement, there is nothing binding on them until the writing is executed.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 893 So. 2d 603 - Schroeder v. Manceri

Relies on Ocala Cooperage Co. v. Florida Cooperage Co.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1934-06-20

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2005

4 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Davis, C. J.

¶1 The assignee of a mortgage offered orally to extend the time of payment fixed by a note and mortgage and the mortgagor accepted, relied upon and acted according to the oral offer, a part of which contemplated that the ■extension should not become binding unless reduced to writing. So no writing was ever entered into extending the time for payment of the note and mortgage and as a result, the assignee of the mortgagee brought this suit and obtained •a decree against a defense interposed by answer setting up the oral extension agreement.

¶2 The finding of the Chancellor awarding a foreclosure de-cree was necessarily to the effect that there never was any binding agreement for extension founded upon a valuable ■consideration, entered into between the mortgagor and the assignee of the mortgage, although there may have been tentative negotiations and an oral understanding between the parties. The present controversy appears to have been decided under the rule that where parties intend that their ■oral agreements shall be reduced to writing, as the evidence of their terms of agreement, there is nothing binding on them until the writing is executed. Ocala Cooperage Co. v. Florida Cooperage Co., 59 Fla. 390, 52 Sou. Rep. 13. There is substantial evidence to support a decision on the *508 theory that an oral' agreement for extension was to he reduced to writing or 'that it would he ineffective.

¶3 We find no error in the procedural points raised and affirm the decree on the merits as being controlled by the oft stated rule that a Chancellor’s decree on the facts will not be reversed unless clearly wrong.

¶4 Affirmed.

Whitfield, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.
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