48 Wash. 2d 624 - Gray v. Lipscomb’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “The [lessors] are not culpable because they hoped the [lessees] would not exercise the option. [Lessees] seem to feel that they stood in a confidential relationship to [lessors], which entitled them to look to the [lessors] for help in the matter. The [lessees’] theory that [lessors’] good manners, sociability, and friendliness created a confidential relationship, is not sound. [Citation omitted.] The parties had always dealt at arm’s length. The [lessors] owed no duty to Pessees] beyond the contractual obligations of the lease and option. They did not make any representations of fact in regard to the terms of the option, nor promise to enlarge its duration. All that can be said against [lessors] is that they did not help Pessees] to exercise their option. The Pessees] were in no way induced to forego actions upon the option by the statements of the Pessors]. [Lessee] Gray admitted that he had forgotten the terms of the option, .... The court will not rewrite the option by enlarging its duration in order to save Pessees] from the results of their own negligence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grisham v. Lowery