Business Law Today 8th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller,Gaylord Jentz

Exercise 6

Case Problem with Sample Answer. As a child, Martha Carr once visited her mother's 108-acre tract of unimproved land in Richland County, South Carolina. In 1968, Betty and Raymond Campbell leased the land. Can, a resident of New York, was diagnosed as having schizophrenia and depression in 1986, was hospitalized five or six times, and takes prescrip-tion drugs for the illnesses. In 1996, Carr inherited the Richland property and, two years later, contacted the Campbells about selling the land. Can asked Betty about the value of the land, and Betty said that the county tax assessor had determined that the land's agricultural value was $54,000. The Campbells, knew at the time that the county had assessed the total property value at $103,700 for tax purposes. On August 6, Carr signed a contract to sell the land to the Campbells for $54,000. Believing the price to be unfair, how-ever, Carr did not deliver the deed. The Campbells filed a suit in a South Carolina state court against Carr, seeking specific performance of the contract. At trial, an expert real estate appraiser testified that the real market value of the property was $162,000 at the time of the contract. Under what circumstances will a court examine the adequacy of consideration? Are those circumstances present in this case? Should the court enforce the contract between Can and the Campbells? Explain. [Campbell v. Cam 361 S,C. 258, 603 S.E.2d 625 (2004)]