Taylor v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “It is entirely clear that plaintiffs knew the construction which defendants put upon the contract when these statements, covering a period of nearly two years, were received by them, and they never objected thereto until after a lapse of an unreasonable time. As a matter of law, it would seem that plaintiffs ought not now to be heard to insist upon another meaning. Their long silence is not justified by showing (and this is their only excuse) that under advice of counsel they deferred objection until after the termination of the lease, because they feared that, if sooner made, litigation would result, or the work stop, or the lease be thrown up. Fair dealing required that their objection be made within a reasonable time after the accounts were rendered, so that plaintiffs, if such a construction as plaintiffs now insist on was to govern, might elect to stop work which the agreement permitted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 232 F. Supp. 2d 840 - Russell v. GTE Government Systems Corp.