Batchelder v. Mantak

How courts have described this case

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• payment term not essential to the formation of a contract for services
• contract had open term because it did not specify amount of compensation
• where the wife had no ownership in the property which was ben efited, did not participate in the negotiations for the services, or request the services, she could not be held liable to the plaintiff on the basis of either contract or quasi-contract
• “[ajlthough a general appearance by an attorney cures all defects of service of process, * * * when the purported clients have never been given any notice of the pendency of the suit, as is the case here, no unauthorized appearance binds them”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).