Brown Oil Co., Inc. v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• adequate consideration means the promisee does something it is under no legal obligation to do or refrains from doing something it has a legal right to do
• “Consideration consists when the promisee does something that he is under no legal obligation to do or refrains from doing which he has a legal right to do.”
• “It is well-settled that consideration exists when the promisee does something that it is under no legal obligation to do or refrains from doing something which it has a legal right to do.”
• “It is well-settled that consideration exists when the promisee does something that it is under no legal obligation to do, or refrains from doing something which it has a legal right to do.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).