George Dickinson was one of several people interested in buying a piece of land from John Dodds. On Wednesday, John wrote to George, offering to sell the property and promising to hold that offer open until Friday morning. While George was considering his options on Thursday, he learned that John was negotiating with another potential buyer. George immediately tried to find John to accept the offer. Although George failed to locate John that night, he did manage to leave a letter of acceptance with John's mother-in-law. Moreover, he caught up with John that next morning and expressed his desire to buy the property. By that time, however, George had learned from a third party that the land had already been sold to someone else. George sued John for failing to fulfill his promise to keep the offer open. The lawsuit failed.lbe court held that John's promise wasable because it was entirely gratuitous. 15 He had not received anything of value in exchange for his promise to hold his offer open until Friday

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