Empro Manufacturing Co., Inc. v. Ball-Co Manufacturing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• letter's recitation that it contains the \general terms and conditions\ implies that each side retained the right to make (and stand on) additional demands
• letter’s recitation that it contains the “general terms and conditions” implies that each side retained the right to make (and stand on) additional demands
• “Contract law gives effect to the parties’ wishes, but they must express these openly. Put differently, ‘intent’ in contract law is objective rather than subjective.”
• “as a matter of law parties who make their pact \subject to\ a later definitive agreement have manifested an (objective) intent not to be bound . . . .”
• “Parties may decide for themselves whether the results of preliminary negotiations bind them[.]”
• “ ![I]ntent’ in contract law is objective rather than subjective....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).