· 5/15/1837
Abbott v. Hutchins
Citations
- 14 Me. 390
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that “[a] party cannot be forced to arbitrate any dispute that he did not agree to arbitrate”
- holding that the “existence of a contract necessarily implies that there has been a ‘meeting of the minds’ between the parties which the court can determine by looking to the intentions of the parties as expressed or manifested in their words or acts”
- holding that the \existence of a contract necessarily implies that there has been a `meeting of the minds' between the parties which the court can determine by looking to the intentions of the parties as expressed or manifested in their words or acts\
- “An obligation to arbitrate is based on assent and agreement.”
- \An obligation to arbitrate is based on assent and agreement.\
- no contract to arbitrate formed
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Judges: Weston
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