Hess v. Dumouchel Paper Co.

How courts have described this case

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• ‘‘[s]eparate dealings among the parties cannot affect another transaction so as to constitute a substituted contract between them unless it was their intention that such an agreement be consummated’’
• planned condemnation of land for highway construction did not excuse tenant’s performance of lease for warehouse until ‘‘the time of the actual taking’’ because ‘‘the imminence of condemnation did not oper- ate to cancel the written lease’’ under impossibility doc- trine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).