Bendalin v. Delgado

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in the agreement at issue, A [t]he failure of the parties to reach some understanding as to price often indicates that there has been no meeting of the minds @
• evaluating damages based on the value of stock in a closely held corporation by evaluating the proof of the value of the stock at the time of the contingency that gave rise to the claim
• the supreme court held that lack of an express agreement on price was not fatal to maintenance of a suit for specific performance of an oral agreement to purchase stock
• to be enforceable, contract must be sufficiently certain to enable court to determine parties' obligations
• wherein the court held that the jury’s finding was not supported by the evidence
• \ 'It is not enough that the parties think that they have made a contract; they must have expressed their intentions in a manner that is capable of understanding.’ \ (quoting 1 Corbin, Contracts § 95 (2nd ed.1963))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).