McLaughlin v. Heikkila is a case that involves Wilbert Heikklia and David Mc Laughlin who entered into an agreement involving eight parcels to be sold to Mr. Mc Laughlin by Mr. Heikklia. According to Cheeseman (2013), the facts of the case indicate that Mr. Mc Laughlin submitted offers to Mr. Heikklia for the purchase of three parcels and afterwards, McLaughlin submitted earnest-money checks and three printed purchase agreements to Heikklia. According to the Minnesota Court of Appeals, McLaughlin himself never signed any of the agreements. However, his wife did sign two of the agreements and she initiated the third agreement on September 14, 2003. Then, two days later on September 16, 2003 Heikklia made changes to two of the agreements by increasing the cost of the parcels, and he changed the closing dates on all three agreements, including add a reservation of mineral rights to all three (Minnesota Court of Appeals, 2005). …show more content…
The issue with this case begs the question: Was there a contract to convey real estate?
Apparently McLaughlin did not think so and felt that by the action of Mr. Heikklia by changing the cost of parcels mean that they were without a “meeting of the minds.” There was no deal since the land transaction was not in writing. Then Mr. McLaughlin sued Mr. Heikklia on the grounds “to compel specific performance of the purchase agreements under the terms of the agreements before Heikkila withdrew his offer” (Cheeseman, 2013).
According to the Minnesota Court of Appeals (2005) the written offer is not evidence of a completed contract and therefore no contract existed.
This is clearly an incident where the offeree, McLaughlin, did not accept the terms as stated in the offer which is what Cheeseman (2013) explains did not meet the mirror image rule: “for an acceptance to exist, the offeree must accept the terms as stated in the
offer.” In my opinion, agreements between two, or more, adult professionals that involve land of such an enormous amount should be done in writing and with a witness available such as a Notary Public. A person who is a Notary Public can verify the importance of your documents and, more importantly a notary can validate the recognition of your document in court. I feel that before McLaughlin and Heikkila went into an agreement, both or at least one of them should have enlisted in the services of a notary. A notary would have been beneficial to both McLaughlin and Heikklia in being the neutral party, like Switzerland, to ensure that the agreement is legally binding (Global Notary, 2014). It is a way to show good faith in the agreement on either part of each party and to also show that the initiative was taken to maintain security with the belief that everything was forthright. When using a notary, you can think of him or her as being like Switzerland, or as the neutral third party that endorses legally binding agreements.
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