Ceres Illinois, Inc. v. Illinois Scrap Processing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• supreme court held that the appellate court correctly applied the manifest weight standard in reviewing the evidence, even though the appellate court’s ultimate holding was that the trial court misapplied the applicable law
• supreme court held that the appellate court correctly applied the manifest weight standard in reviewing the evidence, even though the appellate court's ultimate holding was that the trial court misapplied the applicable law
• the parties must agree to the extent and boundaries of the property
• the parties must agree to the extent and boundaries of the property
• “[E]ven where the essential terms have been agreed upon, if the clear intent of the parties is that neither will be legally bound until the execution and delivery of a formal agreement, then no contract comes into existence until such execution and delivery.”
• “where the parties have assented to all the terms of the oral agreement the mere reference to a future written document does not negate the existence of a present contract” unless the parties clearly intended to be bound to the settlement agreement only after the release was signed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).