SHEPPARD v. ANDREWS

No. 7018SC33.

173 S.E.2d 67 (1970)

7 N.C. App. 517

Randall SHEPPARD and W. H. Anderson v. W. H. ANDREWS and wife, Nellie B. Andrews.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 1, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jordan, Wright, Nichols, Caffrey & Hill, by Luke Wright and Edward L. Murrelle, Greensboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Holt, McNairy & Harris, by R. Kennedy Harris and R. Walton McNairy, Jr., and McLendon, Brim, Brooks, Pierce & Daniels, by W. Erwin Fuller, Jr., Greensboro, for defendants-appellees.


PARKER, Judge.

Appellants assign as error the allowance of the motion for nonsuit as to the feme defendant. In this we find no error. Options, being unilateral in nature and imposing upon the optionee no obligation to buy, are to be construed strictly in favor of the optionor. Accordingly, it is generally held that time is of the essence in such agreements, and conditions imposed therein must be strictly performed in order to convert the optionee's right to buy into...

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