Fresh Air Contractors agree with a bar owner to install a smoke-removal system to remove cigarette smoke from the air.Prior to the start of the work,the city where the bar is located passes an ordinance prohibiting all smoking in bars.The bar owner can:

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Frustration of purpose occurs when an unforeseeable event occurs that makes the purpose of the contract pointless or impossible, and the party seeking to be excused from the contract did not assume the risk of the occurrence. The city's ordinance making smoking in bars illegal makes the smoke-removal system's purpose of removing cigarette smoke from the air pointless, and the bar owner did not assume the risk of such an ordinance being passed. Therefore, the bar owner can avoid the contract on the basis of frustration of purpose.

Fresh Air Contractors Agree with a Bar Owner to Install