· 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
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- 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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