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Woodstock Soapstone Co. v. Carleton, 133 N.H. 809 (1991)

Citation
Woodstock Soapstone Co. v. Carleton, 133 N.H. 809 (1991)
Parent Document
Woodstock Soapstone Co. v. Carleton, 133 N.H. 809 (1991)
Jurisdiction
New Hampshire (state)
Effective Date
1991-01-28

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However, with respect to the option to purchase that Woodstock had acquired from Life Sciences, the trial court ruled that it was ineffective. The court permitted Carleton to raise the defense that the assignment to Woodstock was made without authority. The court found that Robert Dukes, Life Sciences’s general manager, had neither actual nor apparent authority to execute the assignment of the option, and therefore denied Woodstock’s request for specific performance of that option.