Heartland Express, Inc. v. Terry

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an acceptance must be “ ‘in a manner invited or required by the offer’ ” and must be communicated to the offeror
• “ ‘All contracts must contain mutual assent; mode of assent is termed offer and acceptance.’ ”
• “ ‘All contracts must contain mutual assent,’ ” quoting Anderson v. Douglas & Lomason Co., 540 N.W.2d 277, 285 (Iowa 1995)
• indicia that an offer was not intended include the title of the document and disclaimers of intent to make an offer
• “The test for an offer is whether it induces a reasonable belief in the recipient that the recipient can, by accepting, bind the sender.” (citations omitted)
• characterizing Iowa Code section 85.71 as subject matter jurisdiction statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).