Tonkel v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““'Whether the amount offered in the check by the appellee was the correct amount or not as a fact, it is quite clear from the record that the appellee believed in good faith it to be the correct amount, and the stipulations in the deed of trust, giving the grantee the right to advance the payments after a default in the payment, never stipulated that he would have a right to advance them, and make all of them mature, when there was a bona fide dispute between them as to the correct amount, and this is especially true where a party declines to disclose his method of figuring the amount due.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. Gore