Pruner and Rees v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2011
2 district · 4 state decisions
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.
Relationships
Relies on Tantum v. Keller · Tantum v. Keller
Most-quoted passages
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“Here, the lease specified the purchase price, terms and manner of financing and time when the right could be exercised. These terms are far more compatible with an absolute option than they would be with a right of first refusal. Even the parties, in line 7 of paragraph 7 of the lease, refer to the right as an option. We are not dealing here with a bare “right of refusal” but with an instrument which, by its specificity, would unquestionably have created an absolute option except for the word “first” in the first line of paragraph 7. Reading and construing the agreement as a whole, we hold that the right which it created was an option to purchase vested in the lessees rather than a “right of first refusal” as found by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coniglio v. Hansl“THE LESSEES shall have the first right to purchase the leasehold property at the end of the fourth year of the lease at the price of Sixty Five Thousand Dollars ($65,000.00) payable at the rate of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) down, the assumption of any first trust remaining thereon at the time of the exercise of the option, and the balance secured by deed of trust payable at the rate of Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) per month, with interest thereon on the unpaid balance at the rate of seven per centum (7%) per annum for a period of ten (10) years, and the entire amount, principal and interest to be paid on or before the expiration of ten (10) years from the date of the said deed of trust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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