Farmers' Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Missouri Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• stating with respect to “impossibility” defense, “A party cannot by its own act place itself in a position to be unable to perform a contract, then plead that inability to perform as an excuse for nonperformance”
• “The mere fact that the State is the actor does not make an act sovereign for the purpose of subordinating contractual rights.’’
• \The mere fact that the State is the actor does not make an act sovereign for the purpose of subordinating contractual rights.\
• “A party pleading impossibility as a defense must demonstrate that it took virtually every action within its powers to perform its duties under the contract.”
• “Missouri law implies a covenant of good faith and fair dealing in every contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).