Offer Withdrawal Prior to Acceptance in Real Estate Contract Dispute

The dispute concerned the validity of an agreement where one party promised to sell a property to another, who had previously made an offer to purchase, but the seller subsequently sold the property to a third party without first formally notifying the initial offeree of the rejection of their offer, which the offeree claimed constituted a breach of a prerequisite contract to sell. The court held that since the offer to purchase did not stipulate a set time limit for acceptance, the offeror was free to withdraw their offer at any time prior to acceptance, and thus, the subsequent sale to another party did not constitute a breach of any obligation owed to the initial offeree.