Is a failure to complaint and promise to pay the next installment of a purchase contract an express affirmation of the contract?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Higgins Cohn Brand Management v Kinnikinnick Foods Inc., 2016 ONSC 1345 (CanLII):

In Wolfe v. McArthur, it was held that a failure to complaint and promise to pay the next installment of the purchase money was held to be an express affirmation of the contract.[24]

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