Braye v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

How courts have described this case

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• laws and public policy of the state permit and require freedom of contracting between competent parties
• “The laws and the public policy of the state permit and require freedom of contracting between competent parties.”
• construction of contract that renders the -3- 2022 IL App (2d) 210188-U agreement enforceable rather than void is preferred
• the supreme court found, although somewhat implicitly, that the provision that was at issue in the construction contract involved was a contribution provision and not an indemnification provision
• parties are presumed to contract with knowledge of existing law
• public policy of Illinois favors freedom of contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).