# Smith v. Bangham

> California Supreme Court · October 8, 1909 · 156 Cal. 359

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3299453

## Case

- **Full name:** W. SCOTT SMITH, Appellant, v. JOSEPH T. BANGHAM Et Al., Respondents
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** October 8, 1909
- **Citations:** 156 Cal. 359; 104 P. 689; 1909 Cal. LEXIS 335
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Beatty
- **Judges:** Beatty, Melvin, Sloss
- **Cited by:** 78 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing the enforceability of a contract for the option to purchase land

## Opinion text

BEATTY, C. J., dissenting.
I dissent. A dollar is not an adequate consideration for such an option as is here held to defeat the right of Mrs. Bangham to declare a homestead upon property occupied as such. It was a merely nominal consideration, and as against a right so highly and so deservedly favored as the right of homestead it should be disregarded by a court of equity.

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