Barker v. Sawyer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “"When they paid the installment of purchase money and obtained the written contract evidencing the sale, appellants, as shown by the evidence, had no notice, actual or constructive, of the rights of the lumber company. Upon execution and delivery of the contract, and payment of part of the purchase money, appellants' rights as vendees of the land became vested, and completion of the transaction by execution and delivery of the deed could have been compelled by appellants through proper legal proceedings. * * * * * * "Notice of the claim of the lumber company under its unrecorded timber deeds, received after appellants became the equitable owners of the land, was not sufficient to divest appellants of the interest in the land and the timber which they had acquired and partially paid for; nor were appellants required, on account of such information, to seek cancellation of a bargain they had made in good faith and without any knowledge of said appellee's claim."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 28 Colo. App. 557 - Plew v. Colorado Lumber Products