Brent v. Assenbeck

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a seller must send a “a forthright, reasonable signal” that “remove[s] any doubt of the parties’ intent” to hold an auction that does not function in the normal manner
• noting that the parties’ meeting of the minds must include agreement on all essential terms
• explaining the “meeting of the minds” must be “sufficiently definite to assure that the parties are truly in agreement with respect to all material terms”
• “An agreement is a manifestation of mutual assent on the part of two or more persons.” (quoting Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 3 (1981))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).