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· 7/23/1979

Bender v. Design Store Corp.

Citations

  • 404 A.2d 194
  • 1979 D.C. App. LEXIS 427

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that no promise existed when the agreement was not in writing and the appellees had expressed that no agreement would exist until the parties signed a lease
  • explaining that no promise existed when the agreement was not in writing and the appebees had expressed that no agreement would exist until the parties signed a lease
  • despite some conduct consistent with alleged promise, “argument that a promise to lease can be inferred from ... conduct [was] unpersuasive”
  • “First, was there a promise? Second, should the promisor have expected the promisee to rely on the promise: And 11 did the promisee so rely to his detriment? Finally, would injustice result from a failure to enforce the promise?”
  • “[H]e’s not being terminated due to an incomplete 1-9.”

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Judges: Kelly, Kern, Gallagher

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