Hoffman v. Ralston Purina Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding check for seven months without communicating rejection of offer was an unreasonable length of time and constitutes acceptance
• finding acceptance where offeree accepted benefits of offer but never expressly accepted and, in fact, said he would not accept
• “The question is not the actual intent of the offeree, but his manifested intent. Actions of the offeree can constitute acceptance even when accompanying words express a contrary intent.”
• accord and satisfaction only if there is a sufficient expression to make creditor understand that the sum is in satisfaction of disputed claim
• “The question is not the actual intent of the offeree, but his manifested intent.”
• “There must be expressions sufficient to make the creditor understand or to make it unreasonable for him not to understand that the performance is offered in full satisfaction of the claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Associated Milk Producers, Inc. v. Meadow Gold Dairies, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-06-17· cited 34×
• Van Sistine v. Tollard
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1980-03-26· cited 30×
• State v. Walters
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1999-02-25· cited 21×
• State v. Ryan M. Muth
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2020-07-07· cited 14×
• BV/B1, LLC v. InvestorsBank
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2010-10-26· cited 12×
• Wells Fargo Business Credit v. Donald Hindman
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-10-30· cited 11×
• Rockwood Manufacturing Corp. v. Amp, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-12-03· cited 10×
• Advance Concrete Forms, Inc. v. McCann Construction Specialties Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-10-23· cited 9×
• Union Realty Company, Ltd. v. Stephen D. Moses and Arnold L. Porath
  Sixth Circuit· 1993-02-19· cited 9×
• Quirk v. Atlanta Stove Works, Inc.
  E.D. Wisconsin· 1982-04-22· cited 6×
• Jeffery Pruett v. WESTconsin Credit Union
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2023-10-24· cited 4×
• Perritt Limited Partnership, an Illinois Limited Partnership v. Kenosha Unified School District No. 1
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-08-21· cited 3×
• Oppedahl & Larson v. Network Solutions, Inc.
  D. Colorado· 1998-04-16· cited 3×
• Schuetta v. Aurora National Life Assurance Co.
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2014-05-08· cited 3×
• Pandeli v. MAJESZ
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2005-02-09