A verbal offer made by a woman to sell her share of family property in the Adirondacks to her sister as the two bickered was not a legally enforceable contract, an appeals court decided.
An Appellate Division, Third Department, panel said in Wells v. Hodgkins, 523473, that while Shelby Hodgkins told Susan Wells that she would sell her share of the camp known as “Beach Cove” on the shore of Lake Placid in North Elba for $900,000, the conversation did not constitute a binding contract.
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