David Roth's Sons, Inc. v. Wright and Taylor, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[i]f both parties are bound by mutual obligations for even a short period of time, the contract cannot be avoided by either party on this ground”
• noting that a promise absent any fixed obligation to perform “is illusory in the sense that [the promisor] has made no legally enforceable commitment, and justice demands the other party should not be bound”
• “If both parties are bound by mutual obligations for even a short period of time, the contract cannot be avoided by either party [for lack of consideration].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).